I have been trying to validate my web page for the last two hours, I only have one error remaining before it is successfully validated but I keep on getting the character decoding problem, I cannot get round it…..
The whole document is fine except it says…
Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 77 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as
utf-8(in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.The error was: utf8 “\x85” does not map to Unicode
The only thing on line 77 is some text inside some <p> tags, I have tried changing them to <a>, or <span> and taking the <p> away so it is just loose inside the div but the error only goes away when I delete the text inside the tags.
I am using the utf-8 encoding:
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
I am sorry if this is simple to resolve, my knowledge is extremely basic, I am only a first year computing student.
EDIT: the text inside the <p> tags are as follows:
<p>Our team thrives on the latest
political news as we do you. We work
around the clock to bring you the
latest, most important news as soon as
it happens. What do we ask in return…
nothing! This site is funded by us!
Your satisfaction is as much a pay
packet to us then a wad of untraceable
counterfeit notes.<br/><br/>
Sign up
to our newsletter to get regular
updates on news as soon as it happens
without having to navigate to our
site. For your security we only sell
the details you input to our site to
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them.<br/><br/>
StudentPolitics.Now
– Trading in satisfying others since
2011</p>
Save your document in a UTF format. If it already is, try copy-paste the source code to a new file and save it in UTF format (sometimes it can get stuck during edits in some programs).
What editor are you using?
EDIT: There are some non-standard characters in your text:
…(three dots in a single character,“”(curly braces),’(curly apostrophe),–(dash).I guess you’ve copied your text from Word or a similar text processor, I get that often too. Either change those characters to their ASCII counterparts or HTML entities or be sure to save the file with UTF encoding.