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

[Andrew T. <ajt...@hi...>]

Not sure, this is historical (was there in FoF). More than likely to
handle feeds that aren't properly encoded. How to detect if something
is already encoded, or just hope it is?

Andy

On 12/13/05, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>
> > 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&acirc;&euro;&trade;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>
>
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> Kevin
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