Invalid Characters in RSS Feed

  • c9h13no3

    (@c9h13no3)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I apologize if this has been addressed. I’m using the RSS widget to display a custom Google News feed. That feed is producing invalid characters within the link titles. In the page source the character looks like this, � , and is preventing me from validating the markup of my page. When I try to validate with W3C I get the message, “The error was: utf8 “\xA0″ does not map to Unicode”

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

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  • Thread Starter c9h13no3

    (@c9h13no3)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry to bump but I posted this pretty late last night. Any thoughts??

    EntarteteMuzak

    (@entartetemuzak)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    Same problem here.
    Most irritating.

    EntarteteMuzak

    (@entartetemuzak)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I thought of a php snippet that could replace bad characters such as this:

    <?php

    // Function used to replace Bad Characters
    function BadChar($Phrase=''){
        $SearchValues = array(
        "\xA0",
	"�"

        );
           {
            // Replace phrase with space
            $ReplacementValues = array(
                " "
            );
        }
        return str_replace($SearchValues, $ReplacementValues, $Phrase);
    }

?>

    But it didn’t work…
    Can’t say that I’m any good at php though…

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