Not sure where I should post this but....
I am currently building a few sites to draw content from eBid RSS feeds but keep running in to a format problem.
Each time I use a loop to display a sequence of items from an eBid RSS feed each successive item listing tabs slightly to the right and it blows the whole page layout.
I have no problems working with eBay's feeds or Tazbar's feeds and the only significant difference I can see between their feeds and eBid's is the character encoding used by eBid which is utf-8.
The tabbing issue only occurs when I include the description content of the feed. I have no problem when just displaying the headline links. This again makes me think it is the character encoding causing my problem.
This isn't the first time I've hit problems with parsing and displaying utf-8 encoded feeds but unfortunately it's proving impossible for me to be certain this is the issue. I've tried a variety of parsing scripts, I've also tried displaying each individual item in separate <div> tags and even individual HTML tables aligned to the left to try and overcome the problem!
It's got to the point I'm going bonkers now so it's time to ask for help....
Is anyone else currently developing web content using eBid's feeds and found a similar problem or (fingers crossed) managed to work around this problem at all?
I can work with just the item listing titles but the absence of images and description text will make the finished web page appearance pretty bland so I'd like to persevere and find a solution if possible.
Thanks in advance for any help available.