RSS feeds are not valid if there are special characters in the title

[sameerd]

If there are special characters in the Blog's title, they are not correctly escaped in the RSS feeds.

Test Case Example: ​http://test.dcostanet.net/wordpress/ The title has been set to

Test blog ; & ” ‘ ; < > ! special chars

In the RSS feed. ​http://test.dcostanet.net/wordpress/?feed=atom the title shows up as

<title>Test blog ; &#038; " ' ; < > ! special chars</title>

The special characters (double and single quote, and the inequality signs) need to be escaped. There is a similar problem with the other RSS feeds. ​http://test.dcostanet.net/wordpress/?feed=rss2

In the html part of the document ​http://test.dcostanet.net/wordpress/ the special characters are escaped correctly

<title>Test blog ; &#038; &#8221; &#8216; ; &lt; &gt; ! special chars </title>

This bug applies to version 1.5.1.2 (Trac reports it as 1.5.2) - a bug in trac maybe?

[ptvguy]

Displays fine in 2.0.4, but still messed up on feed.

Goes out in ATOM as follows:

<title type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Test blog ; &#038; ” ‘ ; < > ! special chars]]></title>

and in RSS2, it causes this error:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://localhost/wordpress/?feed=rss2
Line Number 17, Column 36:		<title>Test blog ; &#038; ” ‘ ; < > ! special chars</title>

due to this titling:

<title>Test blog ; &#038; ” ‘ ; < > ! special chars</title>

[leftjustified]

patch for 2.0 branch

[leftjustified]

I ran into this bug on 2.1svn while trying some other things. Simply adding an extra filter to the default-filters file fixes the problem in both 2.0 and 2.1 branches.

[ryan]

(In [4044]) specialchars feed titles. Props leftjustified. fixes #1451

[ryan]

(In [4046]) specialchars feed titles. Props leftjustified. fixes #1451

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Milestone 2.0.4 deleted