Hyphen encoding (minus) in Google Base RSS feed

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Published on 2010-04-16T14:44:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 7:33 UTC
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I am trying to create an automatic feed generation for data to be sent to Google Base using utf-8 encoding. However I am getting errors whenever hyphens are found telling me that there is an encoding error in the relevant attribute (title, description, product_type). I am currently using:

&amp;minus;

but I have also tried:

&amp;#8722;

neither of which have worked. I am using the following declaration at the top of the document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Any help appreciated and let me know if I need to give more information!

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