# RSS subscription broken by post content

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-subscription-broken-by-post-content/282415>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** rss\
**Created:** [October 16, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-subscription-broken-by-post-content/282415 "2023-10-16T16:42:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff5-really](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jeff5-really/32/333611_2.png) [@jeff5-really](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jeff5-really)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rss-subscription-broken-by-post-content/282415/6 "2023-10-17T17:35:03Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> > [@sam](#):
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> > I am not seeing what is wrong with that string … the N x KSDT does not appear to have anything hiding there.
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> I looked at the post earlier today. There was a unicode hex code in it that was something like ☐ (`&#x2610`).

The first occurrence is ok, but the second and third contain an 0x02 byte (when I save from this URL using Firefox and read the file as bytes using Python), as in my first post. `validator.w3.org` gave me enough context to locate the first 0x02 in the line.

U+002610 is just the box symbol that something is replacing it with (but not in the RSS).

I asked for the post to be repaired as I didn’t see me getting my subscription working without. I can send you my saved bytes if it would help.

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