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Graham Parks wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2005, at 3:06 pm, Tim Shadel wrote:
>
>
>> 1. I have a show, whose description uses a single quote (') that my
>> blog software (WordPress) nicely converts into an apostrophe
>> (’). iTunes displays the ugly HTML escape sequence, while
>> bloglines.com shows the nice apostrophe.
>
> A quick check of your feed suggests to me that (surprise) iTunes is in
> the wrong here. You should not change your feed to work around Apple's
> bugs.
I don't see this as so cut and dry. True, description ALLOWS
entity-encoded HTML, but the authors of the RSS 2.0 specification
decided not to REQUIRE entity-encoded HTML, apparently over concerns of
backwards compatibility. For more background, see the comments here:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/2004/06/15
Clearly, others cope better with this situation, so iTunes could improve
their heuristics, but as I said, the situation is not so cut and dry.
Incidentally, this is exactly why Atom provides a mechanism for feed
providers to signal their intent via the type attribute, but I digress.
If I understand the precedence rules here, Tim can address this issue by
adding a plain text itunes:summary to each item.
- Sam Ruby
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