RSS Validation

[steveeyes]

I created a RSS feed, but when I validate the feed I get the following message.

Your feed appears to be encoded as 'UTF-8', but your server is reporting 'US-ASCII'

Also, I have added this to my feed <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> (before I just had <?xml version="1.0"?>

to see if it would help and I get this message.

This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users. We recommend fixing these problems.

Your feed appears to be encoded as 'iso-8859-1', but your server is reporting 'US-ASCII'

My feed is at http://www.filipinaeyes.com/Dating-RSS-Feed/rss.xml

I use Feed Validator for the validation. It is located at: http://feedvalidator.org/

When validator gives me the above messages they provide a solution, but it is all greek to me.

Can anyone explain the problem and how to fix it in plain english.

thanks
steve

[vgarcia]

If you're using Apache, you can set the character encoding for your file in .htaccess.

Place this line in your .htaccess file at the root of your site:

<Files /Dating-RSS-Feed/rss.xml>
ForceType application/rss+xml;charset=iso-8859-1
</Files>

If you do this, the server will report a charset of "iso-8859-1" (or whatever you specify in the charset part of the Files directive).

[pas]

Or if it's a PHP script put this (or similar) at the top:

header('Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8');