[BNM] Rss feed

[Dave Phelan]

Charlie,

On 6/4/07, Charlie Wilson <charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to put an RSS feed on my website to my blog (external) and am
> having problems with the formatting - I've got apostrophes and dashes etc
> showing as question marks. I'm also trying to attach a CSS to the feed, with
> no success.
>
> If anyone is interested in helping, please drop me a line on
> charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk.

What are you writing your blog entries in? Are you, perhaps, writing
them in word or similar, and pasting the text into blogger.com?

I suspect word is smartformatting your " quotes into 66 and 99
smartquotes, and turning your - into em-dashes and en-dashes. Then the
blogger interface is encoding these as HTML entities, but the RSS feed
9or the feed reader, maybe) doesn't know what the codes for these are.

A test: try typing an entry in notepade, along with quotes etc, and
then see if the RSS result is okay...

Dave Ph

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