[typo] & in titles

[Scott Laird]

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 Ø should be encoded as  
Ø 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