non SGML errors . . . lots of them

  • When I try to validate https://www.waterstonewildlife.org/journal/ I’m getting a slew of non SGML errors. ??

    I have no idea how to fix this as the code looks clean and Tidy
    validates the HTML that’s generated. I do my editing in a text editor so shouldn’t that clean things up? Does anyone have an idea what’s
    going on?

    Many thanks.

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  • You have some strange encoding going on with your editor. Which editor do you use?

    Thread Starter earther

    (@earther)

    I use NoteTab – https://www.notetab.com/. Have for years and my code has always validated. This is really bumming me out. Bed time . . .

    Did you figure things out on this? When I run your site against w3c’s validator I don’t see any problems.

    Thread Starter earther

    (@earther)

    Yes, the evil characters are gone but it was not my doing. My friend, the server admin, did a search and replace without my even asking!

    But that does not answer the question of how they got there in the first place or how I can prevent it from happening again.

    Now I see that the sidebar the isn’t where it’s supposed to be in FF! It was working here a while ago so don’t know what happened. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. *bawls*

    Back to the drawing board . . .

    Thread Starter earther

    (@earther)

    OK. I just did a fresh .zip download, extracted and can see the problem characters in Notepad (but not in NoteTab). Why are they there? I just did a straight ‘extract all’. Running XP Pro SP2 patches up-to-date. Do I need to edit configuration somewhere?

    At least I got the sidebar prob fixed . . .

    Thread Starter earther

    (@earther)

    Go figure . . . I just checked out a test installation I did on another server. It validates perfectly with the evil characters. https://www.eartherdesigns.com/journal/ This makes me think it’s a server configuration issue. Does that sound logical?

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