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-The Atom and RSS templates use `ESCAPE=HTML` in the title elements. However, HTML-escaped characters aren't valid according to <http://feedvalidator.org/>.
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-Removing `ESCAPE=HTML` works fine, but I haven't checked to see if there are any characters it won't work for.
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-For Atom, at least, I believe adding `type="xhtml"` to the title element will work. I don't think there's an equivalent for RSS.
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-> Removing the ESCAPE=HTML will not work, feed validator hates that just as
-> much. It wants rss feeds to use a specific style of escaping that happens
-> to work in some large percentage of all rss consumers. (Most of which are
-> broken).
-> <http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#data-types-characterdata>
-> There's also no actual spec about how this should work.
-> 
-> This will be a total beast to fix. The current design is very clean in
-> that all (well, nearly all) xml/html escaping is pushed back to the
-> templates. This allows plugins to substitute fields in the templates
-> without worrying about getting escaping right in the plugins -- and a
-> plugin doesn't even know what kind of template is being filled out when
-> it changes a field's value, so it can't do different types of escaping
-> for different templates.
->
-> The only reasonable approach seems to be extending HTML::Template with an
-> ESCAPE=RSS and using that. Unfortunately its design does not allow doing
-> so without hacking its code in several places. I've contacted its author
-> to see if he'd accept such a patch.
->
-> (A secondary bug is that using meta title currently results in unnecessry
-> escaping of the title value before it reaches the template. This makes
-> the escaping issues show up much more than they need to, since lots more
-> characters are currently being double-escaped in the rss.)
-> 
-> --[[Joey]]
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-> Update: Ok, I've fixed this for titles, as a special case, but the
-> underlying problem remains for other fields in rss feeds (such as
-> author), so I'm leaving this bug report open. --[[Joey]]