XF 1.2 RSS feeds not valid UTF8?

[fury]

Chrome is reporting to me the following error:

This page contains the following errors:
error on line 329 at column 33: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0x1C 0x43 0x68 0x61
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.​

on the following page: http://racing-forums.com/forums/nascar-chat.8/index.rss

At this time, line 329 is the following:

      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Dale Jarrett pushing Bristol for All-Star Race:</b> ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett is a public advocate of deeming Bristol Motor Speedway as the new venue for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. Charlotte has been a great venue, and Atlanta that one year, but I think its time that we take it to a short track and let these drivers battle it out, Jarrett said, winner of the 1997 Goodys Headache Powder 500. Short tracks are where every one of these drivers got their start. What better place to...<br />

Column 33 corresponds to the very beginning of the CDATA, the <

Any ideas?

 

[Mike]

It's the actual content within that post it seems: http://racing-forums.com/threads/dale-jarett-wants-bristol-for-all-star-race.46834/

However, I'm not sure how that data would've been inserted - the DB should enforce UTF-8, as should our data input checks. The only thing I could think of is one of the output filters making it be invalid. It's not something I've ever seen before though.

 

[fury]

edit: I looked at HEX(message) for the post. Right smack dab in the middle of the post, here are two instances of the 0x1C of which it complains:

20  1C  43  68  61
[ ] [?] [C] [h] [a]


30  30  2E  20  1C  53  68  6F
[0] [0] [.] [ ] [?] [S] [h] [o]

An errant paste, perhaps? Did the editor paste or insert some file separator characters? I notice in the source article, there happen to be some double quote marks in there where the "1C" shows up in the database entry. Double quotes are often a source of frustration in my experience - those fancy quote marks often mess things up. Let me try pasting here...

The excitement that it engenders has prompted Jarrett to be a public advocate of deeming Bristol Motor Speedway as the new venue for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

“Charlotte has been a great venue, and Atlanta that one year, but I think it’s time that we take it to a short track and let these drivers battle it out,” Jarrett said, winner of the 1997 Goody’s Headache Powder 500. “Short tracks are where every one of these drivers got their start. What better place to have the All-Star Race than action-packed Bristol.

“You have side-by-side racing; you have to know in your mind that if the drivers come here with that kind of money on the line, then they’re going to be willing to take out their best friend, just spin him and take the spot.”