Title: Markup Validation HTML – Cannot Encode properly
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# Markup Validation HTML – Cannot Encode properly
* Resolved [deterius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deterius/)
* (@deterius)
* [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markup-validation-html-cannot-encode-properly-1/)
* Hello WP!
Okay so my site [http://www.hola-china.net/wordpress](http://www.hola-china.net/wordpress)
looks fine, that is until you open it in IE- then it looks like a cat through
a shredder.
* SO.. I went ahead and tried to validate it- and this comes out:
Sorry, I am
unable to validate this document because on line 297 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 “\xE1”
does not map to Unicode
* Err.. what? I’ve tried searching for this an no luck- any ideas?
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* [Ankit Sharma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ankit_sam/)
* (@ankit_sam)
* [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/markup-validation-html-cannot-encode-properly-1/#post-2242704)
* Hi,
Your whole HTML code is inside a DIV.
* >
> EN” “[http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>);
* remove the div
* >