A reader reports having problems with my RSS2 feed for some time but the feed validator to which he directs me says my feed is just fine and invites me to display an ugly orange banner proclaiming it as such. Is anyone else having difficulties?
OTB RSS Feed
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Yes I use Sharp Reader and have been having problems with your feed for a while. I think the problem is with the Square character that follows the Outside the Beltway in the title. I bet if you go to where ever you display your title, go to the end of it and us your delete key to eleiminate the character you will fix it.
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By the way if you open the feed in Internet Explorer you will see what I am talking about. That character must not be allowed in XML/RSS pages.
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I suspect that the aggregators that aren’t having a problem with it are just ignoring the error and publishing it as is.
I just clicked the link provided by James and it shows this at the top of the page.
Warning
This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.
Your feed appears to be encoded as “iso-8859-1”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII” [help]
line 9, column 27: title contains bad characters (2 occurrences) [help]
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Sorry James, I should have been a bit more detailed in my post.
I’m using SharpReader (0.9.5.1) and it’s having problems with your title block:
Your feed appears to be encoded as “iso-8859-1”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”
<title\>Outside The Beltway&#153;</title>
It’s choking on the ™ character.
