My submission was rejected with error-reason “garbage character on line xy”. Why?
The server software found a character in the submission, which is not valid in the charset specified for the submission by the application you used. Only applications supporting the new protocol level 6 can submit entries with Unicode characters – older applications are limited to the ISO-8859-1 (aka Latin1) charset. In order to find the character which caused the rejection, start counting the lines in the rejection notice beginning with the “# xmcd” line, until you reach the line number mentioned in the rejection reason.
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