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Since the RSS standard is still catching up and its application incomplete by many sites, it is possible that some sites will encode the XML file that contains the feed in some encoding format that doesn't support certain extended or foreign characters. Strider already tries to strip those characters when it downloads the XML file but it is possible that some of them might slip through. This can be specially true if you are accessing feeds in foreign language. If that occurs, please email us the web site from which you downloaded the problematic headline and we'll try to fix it.