1048151 - bug with the RSS feed validation check for feeds with foreign or special characters

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[astromsshin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140715215003

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to add "Feeds" account for the folloowing URL.

http://ba.stat.cmu.edu/latestissue.xml


Actual results:

The feed validation check complains that this is not a valid feed. By checking the error console message, I find that 
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Timestamp: 08/04/2014 09:50:19 AM
Error: not well-formed
Source File: http://ba.stat.cmu.edu/latestissue.xml
Line: 38, Column: 27
Source Code:
<description>Jaakko Riihim?ki and Aki Vehtari</description>
-------------------------------------------
2014-08-04 09:50:19	Feeds	INFO	FeedParser.parseFeed: - XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://ba.stat.cmu.edu/latestissue.xml
Line Number 38, Column 27:
<description>Jaakko Riihim?ki and Aki Vehtari</description>
--------------------------^
The problem is caused by the foreign character with two dots. This problem is also found in viewing the same feed in Firefox Version 31 too.


Expected results:

It should process those characters without problems.

Comment 1

[alta88]

The specification does not allow hex chars, this is an invalid feed.  Notify the publisher to follow the spec.

http://validator.w3.org/feed/