# Apostrophe problem in RSS

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apostrophe-problem-in-rss/235744>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 14, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apostrophe-problem-in-rss/235744 "2007-08-14T12:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patch](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/patch/32/1095_2.png) [@Patch](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Patch)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apostrophe-problem-in-rss/235744/1 "2007-08-14T12:47:32Z")

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Hi all!

Managed to generate an RSS feed, which get’s it’s data from my database, but when I view it in the RSS reader my apostrophes show up as question marks. Is this an encoding problem? I have it set as UTF-8. Or is there something I should be using such as striptags or whatever…

cheers.