Import weirdness - XMLRPC failure

[rahirah]

I've successfully imported several times in the past, but today when i tried it I got the following:

XMLRPC failure: Client error: Invalid text encoding: Cannot display this post. Please see http://www.livejournal.com/support/encodings.bml for more information.

I checked the encodings page, read the explanation, and figured it meant that some weird characters had gotten into the posts somehow. But both posts look completely innocuous. I checked the known issues in the wiki, but didn't see anything that looked like this at first glance.

Comments

[rahirah]

Thanks! Not sure why my encoding would suddenly register as not standardized, but that seems to have worked.

[zarhooie]

LJ switched over to a certain type of text encoding a few years back. If you have entries from before they switched, they need to be re-encoded to standardize to the new format.

[rahirah]

That's what's odd - I've imported my LJ a dozen times already, and this never happened before. I'm not sure why the two entries I made since the last successful import would throw things out of whack.