Quote Originally Posted by hardwiredtemplates View Post
Delia I think we found our answer. I went to version 1.10.2 and the feed does load.

Still wondering if Adding these mods would have helped.
Hi, hardwiredtemplates ... whether or not conversion is really necessary, the Latin 1 to UTF8 does work, I've run it against a localhost test file, and have not found any problems with it so far. It changed the collation for the database, each of the tables, and all the pertinent fields in the tables to utf8_general-ci. Dr Byte has another feather in his cap.

I think the tutorial instructions say to change the collation to utf8_unicode_ci though, and I don't know if that's a killer or not. Also, have no idea if it's really necessary to change the collation, though I get the feeling most people don't. If someone knows, would appreciate the input.