Title: Problem validating utf-8
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem validating utf-8

 *  [joew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joew/)
 * (@joew)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-validating-utf-8/)
 * I am having a problem with my WordPress blog at [http://www.joewessels.net](http://www.joewessels.net).
 * I tried to validate my code and got this response from [http://validator.w3.org](http://validator.w3.org):
 * >  Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 617 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 “\x92” does not map to Unicode
 * Any suggestion(s) on how to fix this? I cannot figure out how to look at the 
   code, for starters, which seems to be my problem.
 * Thank you, in advance, for any help.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-validating-utf-8/#post-944030)
 * [here is what I see](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joewessels.net.%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&ss=1)

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 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)
 * [validate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validate/)

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-validating-utf-8/#post-944030)
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