[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #2194: RSS feed serious accent problem

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#2194: RSS feed serious accent problem
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  Reporter:  chouf1    |      Owner:  sorich87
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  reopened
  Priority:  normal    |  Milestone:  1.3
 Component:  Activity  |    Version:
Resolution:            |   Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing
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Comment (by cnorris23):

 DJPaul and boonebgorges,

 I was reading through the IRC logs for the day, and wanted to fill you in
 on the question you two had about the CDATA tag being removed. When I was
 troubleshooting the ticket I kept finding that if an entity was used
 rather than an accented character, the actual entity would display. The
 expected behavior was that the browser would then convert the entity. I
 was testing in Firefox, so curiosity and the fact that I knew Firefox was
 sometimes weird in the way it cached feeds, I tried things in Safari.
 That's when I found CDATA was the issue. After scanning the RSS docs I
 found that while it's not explicitly stated that CDATA in a title tag is
 incorrect (feedvalidator.org doesn't flag it either), there didn't seem to
 be a place where it was stated that it could be expected. Conversely, docs
 for the description tag do state that CDATA may appear. It seems to be a
 gray area that the two browsers have handled differently. Since, strip
 tags is run on the feed titles, I chose to remove the CDATA from the title
 tags, which seems to clear up the problem.To note, WP doesn't use CDATA in
 the feed titles either. I only tested in Firefox 3.6 and Safari 5, but
 since both Chrome and Safari are Webkit based, I assume that Chrome never
 had the issue. Hope that explains it, and sorry for the length. It's the
 reason I didn't address it earlier ;)

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