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Hi,

I'm working on the following site:

http://www.fragrancecollection.com/

When I submit the site to Digg; odd characters show up in the description field. I tried forcing the character encoding to UTF-8 (which the document is saved as) via meta tags; but that did nothing. I tried replacing complex characters with simpler literals (such as (TM) and (R); that helped but I still couldn't use an ampersand (tried both & and &).

I have 2 questions.

1.) Is there documentation somewhere where I can get specifications on how to format content for proper submission to Digg? Frequent Googling has turned up nothing so far.

2.) Is it possible to specify a meta description for Digg.com; via a digg specific meta tag like or by a user agent sniffing (useragent.contains("digg-crawler") == true)?

Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, - Frank