Re: [syndication] XML Character encoding (again)

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

I've switched to iso-8859-1 encoding and the feed now validates (today). 
As I hinted earlier, It's a reasonable assumption that the vast majority 
of posts are made from Wintel with IE so this might well solve my 
problem for 99% of cases.

Another data point. php has a function utf-encode
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php
This might be an alternate solution which I'll explore. Interestingly 
there's a comment here in the user contributed notes.

"To write an XML element $title containing "exotic" (eg. non ASCII é & à 
ñ...) 2 solutions I found :
Fastest :
$xml .= "<title><![CDATA[" . $title ."]]></title>\n"
or cleanest :
$xml .= "<title>".utf8_encode(htmlspecialchars($title))."</title>\n"
After that, your xml can be parsed without errors."

So my misunderstanding of CDATA and encoding seems to be widespread.
See also http://feeds.archive.org/validator/docs/error/SAXError

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