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The following article will help those using Windows Live Writer with WordPress. For more information and support, see the Windows Live Writer support forum.

Failure to Post Due to Encoding

Description: Weblog is configured to use non-UTF-8 encoding. Attempt to post results in error message “Blog Server Error. Parse error. Not well formed”. Posts from the web UI are fine.

Reason and Solution: PHP's XML parser does not support encodings besides UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and US-ASCII. You must use one of these encodings. After changing the setting on your blog, you will need to force Writer to redetect your encoding by choosing the menu option Weblog