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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# On RSS feeds + +As per https://stackoverflow.com/a/11787940 + +> The specification has lacked clarity regarding whether HTML is permitted in +> elements other than an item's description, leading to wide variance in how +> aggregators treat character data in other elements. This makes it especially +> difficult for a publisher to determine how to encode the characters "&" and +> "<", which must be encoded in XML. + +`&`, `—`, etc won't work in XML title tags. This will break some feed +readers entirely (e.g. Thunderbird). Fix by using hexcode (e.g. for mdash: +`—`) |