Title: [Plugin: FeedWordPress] iconv/mbstring warning
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: FeedWordPress] iconv/mbstring warning

 *  [cogdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cogdog/)
 * (@cogdog)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/)
 * Recently (not long after WP 3.4 upgrade) a batch of our subscribed feeds are 
   failing with:
 *     ```
       The data could not be converted to UTF-8.
       You MUST have either the iconv or mbstring extension installed.
       Upgrading to PHP 5.x (which includes iconv) is highly recommended.
       ```
   
 * Our server is running PHP 5.3.10 and iconv is enabled.
 * These feeds are coming from another wordpress site (we are resynidcating based
   on a tag at the mother site)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/)

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 *  [narino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narino/)
 * (@narino)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841291)
 * I got the same error here.
 * Anybody knows what is going on?
 *  [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * (@planetmike)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841292)
 * This just started happening to me today as well. Is there a cache somewhere we
   should flush? Very odd.
 *  [emeraldryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emeraldryan/)
 * (@emeraldryan)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841295)
 * I also started getting the error message (from the FeedWordPress plugin) below
   in the last few days:
 * > The data could not be converted to UTF-8. You MUST have either the iconv or
   > mbstring extension installed.
 * My web host increased the PHP memory limit from 32MB to 96MB and that seems to
   have fixed the problem.
 *  [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * (@planetmike)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841300)
 * Increasing the value of memory_limit in the server’s php.ini worked for me as
   well. Thanks for the suggestion!
 *  [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * (@planetmike)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841302)
 * I increased the PHP memory, and now several days later the problem came back.
   I restarted apache again, no help. Any other ideas?
 *  [emeraldryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emeraldryan/)
 * (@emeraldryan)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841303)
 * I had the same problem. After a few days the issue came back. In the end I had
   to downgrade from WordPress 3.4 to 3.3 and this seemed to solve the problem.

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [emeraldryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emeraldryan/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-iconvmbstring-warning/#post-2841303)
 * Status: not resolved