Title: How to fix Validator Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# How to fix Validator Error

 *  Resolved [maxmk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxmk/)
 * (@maxmk)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/)
 * Hello,
 * I am getting following error while validating my blog i.e. [eitwebguru.com](http://www.eitwebguru.com)
   
   [ Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 1085 it contained
   one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes
   found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check
   both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.
 * The error was: utf8 “\xA9” does not map to Unicode
 * Please let me know how to fix this.

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 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280742)
 * There is an invalid non-utf8 character in your footer.
 * `&xA9;` is the Copyright symbol.
 * use `©` instead for the HTML equivalent.
 *  Thread Starter [maxmk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxmk/)
 * (@maxmk)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280743)
 * Thanks for the reply harmck. I have corrected it now but I am still not able 
   to get it validated.
 * Please assist.
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280744)
 * I have refreshed and do not see the new copyright logo. Do you save your files
   with the UTF8 Charset?
 *  Thread Starter [maxmk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxmk/)
 * (@maxmk)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280749)
 * I have used © and now its showing 128 Errors which I need to fix 🙂
 * Thanks Harmck for your help.
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280752)
 * No problem, good luck with those. Most seem to be straightforward. Mark as resolved
   if you’re happy your validation error is fixed.
 *  Thread Starter [maxmk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxmk/)
 * (@maxmk)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280754)
 * Resolved 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [maxmk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxmk/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-fix-validator-error/#post-2280754)
 * Status: resolved

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