html entities should not appear in rss2 title

[anonymousbugger]

If a html-entity appears in the title, the xml file is broken.

so an entity sould be decoded and encoded as utf8

echo utf8_encode(html_entity_decode($title));

instead of echo $title;

in wp-includes/feed-functions.php line 12

will fix this problem

seams only a workaround and will create new problems, while using special chars in title.

utf8_encode -- Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8. A lot of people don't use ISO-8859.

This is happening to my comments feed whenever I trackback my own site. Other trackbacks come in just fine, but my own trackbacks turn the comments feed into one big XML Parse error.

See bug 1132 (duplicate?) for another possible fix:  http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=1132

This plugin will also fix the problem:

 http://guff.szub.net/entity2ncr/

 http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2517