Foreign Characters and HTML entities - Mötley Crüe and Déjà Vu

By Chris Herdt on April 7, 2011 12:15 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

 Just a test to see how HTML entities appear in an RSS feed.

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Author Profile Page Chris Herdt | April 7, 2011 12:21 PM

It turns out, using HTML entities in a Movable Type blog post title is a bad idea for the following reasons:

  1. The entity name appears in the RSS feed and in RSS readers (e.g. é instead of é)
  2. I now encounter an error when attempting to edit this post.

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