Re: [Fofredux-devel] Feed titles get jumbled with punctuation and pronounciation symbols

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

> This article just showed up as new in a feed I have. I've seen this
> happen often with articles where the title is not generated correctly.
>
> Here is the title:
> WireTap: Tookie’s Final Hour
>
> Here is the link to the article.
> http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/29508/
>
> This also happens frequently with pronounciation symbols in a title.

Annoying indeed.

Question for other devs: What is the reason the titles and url's are
passed through htmlspecialchars()?

In this case, the source feed already has the html entities set correctly=
.

<item>
 <title>WireTap: Tookie&acirc;&euro;&trade;s Final Hour</title>
 ...
</item>

--=20
Kevin