unable to validate document because demo define_main_page contain non-UTF8 characters

Huh. I've never had a stock Zencart installation fail validation, but my 1.5.4 test site (stevesh.com/demo) (custom template using Classic elements, but no other mods) gives me a "Sorry! This document cannot be checked." error message and this explanation:

Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 354 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 "\x92" does not map to Unicode

stevesh:

Huh. I've never had a stock Zencart installation fail validation, but my 1.5.4 test site (stevesh.com/demo) (custom template using Classic elements, but no other mods) gives me a "Sorry! This document cannot be checked." error message and this explanation:

Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 354 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 "\x92" does not map to Unicode

Try removing all of the text from define_main_page under the define pages editor and trying to run the validator again

Ya, there appears to be a non-UTF8 character on the first line of the define_main_page.php file that ships with ZC, in the "book" ad.

But, since every live shop will change that out with their own content, it's a minor issue which will be left for the next version.