431991 - slashdot.org - RSS feed includes double-escaped entities in <title>s

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Thomas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; da; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; da; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

When I add live bookmarks for slashdot to my bookmarks toolbar, many entries contains stuff like: — and &

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to slashdot.org
2. Press the rss icon in the urlbar
3. Add to bookmark toolbar
4. Look at the entries
Actual Results:  
Quickies — MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes
AT&T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All

Expected Results:  
Quickies - MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes
AT&T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All

From the saved rss file:
<title>Quickies &amp;mdash; MIT's Intelligent Sticky Notes</title>
<title>AT&amp;amp;T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All</title>

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Not a bug per bug 252147, but who knows, maybe someday someone will manage to evangelize either Slashdot or Feedburner into realizing that treating RSS <title>s as HTML is a bug on their part.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

That sounded like philor just volunteered ;)

Comment 3

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Problem not found
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0