Validation error: utf8 "\x92" does not map to Unicode

Hi All!

I'm not only new here but have somehow managed to put together my first website at http://www.saltrocks.org with Notepad as my editor. Most of my pages have validated both in XHTML 1.0 & CSS but now just finishing up the last few.

My testimonials page at http://www.saltrocks.org/Testimonials.html, featuring my own daughter who is my inspiration for starting this endeavor, just refuses to validate stating:

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 236 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 "\x92" does not map to Unicode"

Perhaps I am counting wrong but I find line 236 to be the following:
<code>dig hard to find the information but once we discovered this tool, we intuitively knew it was the answer we had been</code>.

The issue is there are absolutely no characters there, not even an apostrophe to remove. S.O.S!! Can anyone of you young bucks help this old-timer? Thanks a mill.

Line 236 is

When saving in notepad

Under where you put the file name, it says 'encoding' with a drop down menu, make sure utf-8 is selected.

Also haven't you already made a thread about this?

Thanks. As far as the code, I'll check into that and get back over here.

Next, I did post this but was emailed by the moderator to start my own thread.

I'm new so really am just getting acclamated here. I probably posted in a wrong forum. I don't know what happened and wasn't given a reason why to repost.

SaltRocks!

oh right, fair enough.

Thought i was going mad there... i swear de ja vu isn't just in the mind though.

Also take a look at notepad++ it's what i use to code, it's got some features i love.

Like you can split the work area so you can have two files open next to each other (i use one side for html/php and the other for js/css) and you can tab files.

There are alot of good code editors out there, they're better than wysiwygs anyday [:

If changing the encoding doesn't work, there are a few more things it could be.

Thanks, Bocaj!

I don't understand why all my other pages cleared utf-8 encoding validation which are all saved as ANSI docs. I applied your suggestion to utf-8 save the doc from the file menu in Notepad. I revalidated and it clears but now has the following warning which I remain perplexed about:

Potential Issues

The following missing or conflicting information caused the validator to perform guesswork prior to validation. If the guess or fallback is incorrect, it may make validation results entirely incoherent. It is highly recommended to check these potential issues, and, if necessary, fix them and re-validate the document.

1. Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File.
   The Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) in UTF-8 encoded files is known to cause problems for some text editors and older browsers. You may want to consider avoiding its use until it is better supported.

Is there anyway to now clear this?

Thanks again,
SaltRocks

Open it in notepad++ (or alternative).

It's a problem with notepad, i didn't know it did this but i know some text editors do this.

Something like utf-16 needs a BOM to work properly, whereas utf-8 does not, however some text editors add it anyway.

However bear in mind it's not an error, more just a warning. So i wouldn't worry too much about it.

Perhaps it's time to switch over to a more coherant editor?

I think you'll quite like some of the implementations like syntax highlighting, but alot of code editors aren't too difficult to move up to from notepad. [:

*pushes towards notepad++ *

Thanks. I'll check it out in a bit. Gotta run to p/u my daughters from summer school...

Will check later and get back.

Bocaj,

Sorry it took so long to get back here today. It's actually night now but the day never ends...

U R a genius! Thx for looking into my matter, of which I have many more and must now try to post and continue sorting thru 1 at a time.

Nonetheless, I downloaded the notepad++ and only wish I had started out 4 months ago using this editor instead of the lame notepad I've been struggling with. All said, I opened the doc in this program but didn't really know what to do from there. You're right, it's just a warning so I suppose I shouldn't get too frenzied about it, I just have too much still to do. I may revisit that page down the line.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to state this thread is [SOLVED] under Thread Tools as instructed but there is no option there stating to close the thread or that it's now solved.

Now on to the next validation issue and thus my next thread about my audio file page that won't validate either. Hope to hear from you there too!

Don't worry, i don't even know how to make a thread [solved].

I just thought an admin did it.

Glad i've helped [: