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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Invalid Character in RSS feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/)
 *  Thread Starter [bodach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bodach/)
 * (@bodach)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/#post-1066515)
 * You are absolutely right. YARPP is behaving correctly. Once again I’m sorry for
   wasting your time, but thank you for the suggestion.
 * The weird thing is these “bad” characters seem to appear only in the first couple
   of lines in my posts, most often after I enter a double space after a fullstop(
   period).
 * Anyway that is not your problem. Thanks again for looking into it.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Invalid Character in RSS feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/)
 *  Thread Starter [bodach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bodach/)
 * (@bodach)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/#post-1066489)
 * OK – I actually do think there is a problem. I think there are invalid characters
   in the related post links in both the posts and the RSS feed. But the browsers,
   IE and Chrome are less restrictive than the feed readers and so the text is displayed.
   The invalid characters can be seen on this page, in the related post section 
   at the bottom, [http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/05/04/activities/music-of-abruzzo/](http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/05/04/activities/music-of-abruzzo/)
   Note also that if you look at the second related post (the first with an invalid
   character) [http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/04/17/pictures/marina-cvetic-montepulciano-dabruzzo/](http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/04/17/pictures/marina-cvetic-montepulciano-dabruzzo/)
   there are no indications of an invalid character in the posts text.
 * It is for this reason I believe the YARP plugin is the source of the issue. (
   Sorry for all this flip-flopping.)
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Invalid Character in RSS feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/)
 *  Thread Starter [bodach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bodach/)
 * (@bodach)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/#post-1066488)
 * Please stop working on this. I think I may be wasting your time. When I look 
   at the related posts at the actual post level the same issue occurs, but I think
   the browsers are more forgiving than feed readers.
 * I think my posts/DB may have corrupt data. Sorry if I wasted your time.
 * Post level:
 * Related posts:
 * Something Special A friend of mine who lives in Loreto Aprutino kindly…
    Marina
   Cvetic, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo I like wine. � It’s not the first time I’ve… 
   L’appetito vien mangiando (Appetite comes with eating) I can’t wait any longer.
   � I’ve done everything I…
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Invalid Character in RSS feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/)
 *  Thread Starter [bodach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bodach/)
 * (@bodach)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/#post-1066487)
 * Also I ran the feed through [http://feedvalidator.org](http://feedvalidator.org)
 * and got
 * Sorry
 * This feed does not validate.
 * line 82, column 560: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode bytes in position 7155-7156: invalid
   data (maybe a high-bit character?) [help]
 * … ?It’s not the first time I’ve…</small>
    - <a href=’h …
       ^ In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed
      readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
    - line 82, column 521: content:encoded contains bad characters (18 occurrences)[
      help]
    - … d’Abruzzo <small>I like wine. ?It’s not the first time I …
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [[Plugin: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin] Invalid Character in RSS feed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/)
 *  Thread Starter [bodach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bodach/)
 * (@bodach)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-yet-another-related-posts-plugin-invalid-character-in-rss-feed/#post-1066486)
 * I’m not sure if I am doing this right, but here goes…
 * I recreated the problem, did a view source on the feed in Chrome (IE fails to
   display the entire feed), this one of the sections that appear to cause the problem.
   Note the character represented by a “square” after the words “wine.” and “longer.”
   Thanks for looking at it.
 * <p>Related posts:
    1. [Something Special](http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/02/25/pictures/something-special/)
       <small>A friend of mine who lives in Loreto Aprutino kindly…</small>
    2. [Marina Cvetic, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo](http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/04/17/pictures/marina-cvetic-montepulciano-dabruzzo/)
       <small>I like wine. � It’s not the first time I’ve…</small>
    3. [L’appetito vien mangiando (Appetite comes with eating)](http://aboutabruzzo.com/index.php/2009/04/24/books/lappetito-vien-mangiando-appetite-comes-with-eating/)
       <small>I can’t wait any longer. � I’ve done everything I…</small>
 * </p>]]>

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