Problems with my blog's RSS feed

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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 9:58 pm

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  My blog’s RSS feed is no longer synchronizing with my website or my ArtistData account. And then I go directly to the feed I see this error:

  error on line 53 at column 30: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
  Bytes: 0x01 0x15 0x3C 0x61

  Please advise how I can fix my feed.

  Thanks,
  Philip

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 10:04 pm

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  I’m sorry to report that you have accidentally posted to the wrong support forum. We cannot help you here at WordPress.com with that site as it’s not being hosted by WordPress.com and we run on different software. This is the correct forum for your software http://wordpress.ORG/support/
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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 10:06 pm

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  Um.

  The feed is at http://philipclarkmusic.wordpress.COMfeed/

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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 10:08 pm

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  My blog is a WordPress.com blog.

  http://philipclarkmusic.wordpress.com/feed/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 10:12 pm

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  Hi again,
  The correct URL for your RSS feed for your posts is: http://philipclarkmusic.wordpress.com/feed/ and you are correct there is a feed problem that Staff must deal with:

  Your RSS feed contains invalid XML:
  XML error: Invalid character at line 53

  <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
  <rss version=”2.0″

  http://ismyblogworking.com/philipclarkmusic.wordpress.com

  I’ll flag this thread for Staff attention.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 28, 2011 at 10:59 pm

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  The issue was with an invalid character before the “” link on your “Free Soul Music Saturday for November 26, 2011” post.

  I have removed it, so it should be good now, but you may need to publish a new post for the change to appear in your feed.

  For future reference, you can use http://validator.w3.org/feed/ to check your feed. It will highlight the problem for you.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 11:04 pm

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  staff-blorbo
  Hi there,
  I see that this blogger has created a tag with the # sign character in it. Hence I think this is bound to repeat again. I am referring to Posts Tagged ‘#soulmusic’ Am I correct in thinking that the blogger must edit that tag and remove the # from it?

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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 11:07 pm

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  I removed the ‘#soulmusic’ tag, but my feed’s still reading errors, and I don’t see those errors in the original HTML of my post.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 28, 2011 at 11:12 pm

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  Sorry, it looks like I forgot to include part of my reply there.

  The issue was before the “Laid Back – DJ Vadim & Mr. Critical – Double Trouble” link on your “Free Soul Music Saturday for November 26, 2011” post.

  It’s gone now, but you may need to publish a new post before the changes are reflected in your feed.

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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 11:21 pm

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  Well, I published a test post. Feed is still messed up.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 28, 2011 at 11:44 pm

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  Hm, that’s no good.

  You’ll see the area highlighted at http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fphilipclarkmusic.wordpress.com%2Ffeed%2F#l99

  Would you mind re-typing that portion of the post?

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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 29, 2011 at 12:14 am

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  Done.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 29, 2011 at 12:49 am

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  Any luck after publishing another post?

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  dreamchilde · Member · Nov 29, 2011 at 12:55 am

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  I just eliminated the line entirely, and I think that did the trick. Very odd.