RSS feed : wrong encoding?

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I just migrated my website to a brand new server, and now i'm having a weird issue.

The characters affected are <, >, ', and ". Accented (á, é, ê, à, è, ...) are correctly displayed.

How can I fix this ?

Looks fine to me in FeedDemon and Safari, and the W3 feed validator says it's perfectly valid. Did you resolve this yourself already? — Su', Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 8:46
Looks OK to me too. Can you cut/paste a section that is "wrongly encoded"? — MrWhite, Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 9:29
Have you tried another app to read the feed. As @Su' said w3 validated it which means it's ok. You can test it here validator.w3.org/appc — Anagio, Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 10:23
The problem would seem to be that you have entities inside your CDATA sections which you don't want encoded. This might be OK if your feed is displayed in an HTML context, but if not (which seems to be the case) these entities should be displayed literally - unless the reader manually decodes these entities (which it should not). Since your CDATA sections contain a mixture of encoded and unencoded chars I would guess that the encoded chars are in your source data, or another process is encoding them. I don't see how the server itself can influence this. — MrWhite, Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 12:58
@w3d OK, so WordPress is now mixing encoded and unencoded chars since the last update (3.5)... — Patouf, Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 14:51

Brent Washburne · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-28 06:18:17Z

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Those characters affected are the ones that are usually encoded as HTML entities: <, >, &apos and ". Maybe you need to decode them first?

answered Jan 28, 2015 at 6:18

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