No, not Mark’s post from earlier, but the random Euro signs which have appear across LibDemBlogs today.
There seems to be a character set issue between my server and everyone’s RSS feeds, so when people used fancy curly quotes they just appeared as garbage.
The true problem will need to be fixed, however for the time being, I’ve just got a find and replace script instead.
Oh dear! Quite unfortunate considering what Lynne was saying…:)
Magpie RSS is now throwing errors when it tries to parse the feed:
MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (not well-formed (invalid token) at line 248, column 115)
Which seems to be in Peter Black’s blog –
http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2008/01/hain-struggles-for-closure.html
specifically: �5,000
Not sure if that’s anything to do with this change.
I suppose I should also look into whether my RSS reader has an upgrade as well…
Further to that, Feed Validator shows errors in the feed :/
Cheers Tristan, I’ve changed the encoding of the feed reading to ISO-8859-1 and that seems to have done the trick for now.
Just waiting for something else to go wrong…