The error was: utf8 xE1 does not map to Unicode

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:16 pm

The error was: utf8 "\xE1" does not map to Unicode
This error is due to using a character being used that isn't compatible with the site charset.
This was a difficult one to find as the error message could be a little more meaningful but search your files and database for references to
acute
xe1 or
á
If that character is not encoded in the source, try to replace it with á (or á).

Newbie Joined: Nov 20, 2008 Posts: 37

How did you get this error?

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:45 pm

It's appearing from an external RSS feed from PHP Classes. The class authors name uses the á character which is causing the error when I use utf-8 charset (with html5 doctype).
I cleared the RSS feed cache and also tried the two setting in rnconfig.php to turn on/off the enforcing of utf-8 for the feed but it makes no difference, the error is still there but goes away if I disable the feed block.
I'm pretty sure it's the feed itself using an illegal character but it's being converted into something that isn't utf-8 compatible.