Getting this when validating one of our rss feeds: Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"
I have been in contact with the ShoutEm support
The reply from them: I went over the feed, and the feed seems to have a few issues that need to be rectified. Even though you can open it in the browser and check the code, it doesn’t have to mean that it’s working properly.
For the XML declaration part, can you try setting the versions under the quotation marks, like this :
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
Same goes for the RSS declaration as well.
This needs to be changed within the service that controls your RSS feed generation. You’re probably using some kind of web script that is doing this for your web, and you’ll need to change this within the same.
If you could redo the feed according to the notices here : http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.queertownabbey.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%3Fformat%3Dfeed%26type%3Drss
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 1, column 14: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:14: XML declaration not well-formed [help]
<?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8 ?>
^
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
Feeds should not be served with the "text/html" media type
Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"
I would appreciate any help I can get here since I have no idea how to solve this.
Thanks in advance!
Anders
I have been in contact with the ShoutEm support
The reply from them: I went over the feed, and the feed seems to have a few issues that need to be rectified. Even though you can open it in the browser and check the code, it doesn’t have to mean that it’s working properly.
For the XML declaration part, can you try setting the versions under the quotation marks, like this :
<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
Same goes for the RSS declaration as well.
This needs to be changed within the service that controls your RSS feed generation. You’re probably using some kind of web script that is doing this for your web, and you’ll need to change this within the same.
If you could redo the feed according to the notices here : http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.queertownabbey.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%3Fformat%3Dfeed%26type%3Drss
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 1, column 14: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:14: XML declaration not well-formed [help]
<?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8 ?>
^
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
Feeds should not be served with the "text/html" media type
Your feed appears to be encoded as "UTF-8", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"
I would appreciate any help I can get here since I have no idea how to solve this.
Thanks in advance!
Anders