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Character encoding error, cannot write valid XML from MySQL via PHP
<?php

$database =  'xxxx';
$dbconnect = mysql_pconnect('xxxx', 'xxxx', 'xxxx');
mysql_select_db($database, $dbconnect);

$query = "SELECT * FROM the_queue WHERE id LIKE '%'    ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 25";
$result = mysql_query($query, $dbconnect);

while ($line = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
        {
            $return[] = $line;
        }

$now = date("D, d M Y H:i:s T");

$output = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
            <rss version="2.0">
                <channel>
                    <title>The Queue</title>
                    <link>http://readapp.net</link>
                    <description>A curated reading list.</description>
                    <language>en-us</language>
                    <pubDate>$now</pubDate>
                    <lastBuildDate>$now</lastBuildDate>
            ";

foreach ($return as $line)
{
    $output .= "<item><title>".htmlspecialchars($line['title'])."</title>
    <description>".htmlspecialchars($line['description'])."</description>
                    <link>".htmlspecialchars($line['link'])."</link>
                    <pubDate>".htmlspecialchars($line['pubDate'])."</pubDate>
                </item>";
}
$output .= "</channel></rss>";

$fh = fopen('feed.xml', 'w');
fwrite($fh, $output);
?>

<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  ...
</head>

$database =  'xxxx';
$dbconnect = mysql_pconnect('xxxx', 'xxxx', 'xxxx');
mysql_select_db($database, $dbconnect);
mysql_query('SET NAMES utf8', $dbconnect);

CREATE TABLE `the_queue` (
  ...
) ... DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

`description` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET latin1,

$output = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...

$output = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?".">
...

$line['description'] = '"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” ... “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”';

echo "<description>" . htmlspecialchars($line['description'], ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8', false) . "</description>";