[BNM] Rss feed

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yo Charlie - this:

http://www.perfectly-write-words.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

seems to be working fine with me - I have subscribed OK in Netvibes using
Firefox, no rouge characters in sight...




On 6/4/07, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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