My & Oslash; appeared wrong in Atom as well (in Bloglines at least), but I haven't checked if it's Bloglines or Typo's fault yet.
As for RSS, couldn't you put the title into CDATA to avoid escaping? (I'm a XML/RSS newbie but I've used CDATA to get around escaping problems in the past) /Jonas --- typo-list at rubyforge.org wrote: > On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:24 AM, jonasb.16759522 at bloglines.com wrote: > > > I had a similar problem recently where I put a HTML entity in the > > title (& > > Oslash; in this case). It worked as intended on the blog, but > > didn't show > > up correctly in feeds/aggregator. Haven't looked into it though. > > You can't generally put entities into the title field and expect them > to survive RSS. The RSS spec (pick one) doesn't say which format the > title is in, and some readers assume that it's just plain text, while > others assume HTML. So it's unclear if ? should be encoded as > ? or Ø. As expected, both options are popular. > > This is one of the reasons for Atom. > > You can usually work around this by using UTF-8. It doesn't help > when you're trying to put "&" or "<" into the title, but it'll take > care of nearly everything else. > > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > Typo-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list >
