′ entity code prevents RSS and Atom feeds from validating

[rmanalan]

For some reason, I couldn't validate my feeds with the FeedValidator because a single quote character was being encoded the ′ entity character. Seems like that would be fine, but for some reason, it wouldn't validate. Also, Firefox couldn't display my RSS2 feed properly either because of the ′ entity character. So, I made the following changes which fixed the problem. By the way, I made this change in WP 1.2.

File: /wp-includes/functions-formatting.php

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Old:
Line 25: $curl = preg_replace('/(\d+)"/', '$1″', $curl);
Line 26: $curl = preg_replace("/(\d+)'/", '$1′', $curl);

New:
Line 25: $curl = preg_replace('/(\d+)"/', '$1″', $curl);
Line 26: $curl = preg_replace("/(\d+)'/", '$1′', $curl);`

It might be nice if WordPress uses only decimal or hexadecimal entities, since those are always compatible AFAIK. Of course, using the 5 XML entities is always good.

Nothing.