Title: UTF Encoding Validation Error, Rendering in IE
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# UTF Encoding Validation Error, Rendering in IE

 *  [jacobsulz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacobsulz/)
 * (@jacobsulz)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-encoding-validation-error-rendering-in-ie/)
 * Good day everyone. This is my first post in this forum.
 * I am currently helping a friend of mine in South America who is setting up a 
   news site using WordPress 2.6. This is a Spanish language site he has not yet“
   opened” officially, though you can view the current homepage at: [http://minuto60.com](http://minuto60.com)
 * There is a rendering problem with the text in the sidebar at the lower right 
   of the page where he has an HTML form with an array of radio-buttons used to 
   conduct an online poll. The form begins with the text that says “Sondeo de Opinión”
   which, if you are viewing it in Internet Explorer (I’m using version 7), is presented
   with an oversize font, which is the problem and which I believe may relate to
   UTF encoding, as I will explain.
 * I have used the HTML Markup Validator service here on the WordPress site for 
   the homepage and it returned the following error msg:
 * “Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 952 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 “\xF3” does not map to Unicode”
 * I understand the error quite clearly, but my question is this:
 * Can this error be corrected within WordPress — possibly through the use of an
   available plug-in or is there a different DTD that can be identified within the
   template that will permit rendering of Spanish language characters (or possibly
   an HTML or XHTML Meta Tag) or does the solution rest within Windows (possibly
   requiring a reset of the registry)?
 * By way of general information I am an internet applications developer and I believe
   I should be competent (famous last words?) to handle a recommended change. But
   this is my first experience with WordPress though I am more than familiar with
   blog skin templates, CSS, and HTML and XML.
 * I thank anyone who responds.
 * Jacob Sulzbach

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