[Web4lib] RSS and diacritics

[Bob Duncan]

Greetings,

I'm getting ready to offer RSS feeds for our library's recent 
acquisitions lists and have run into a little snag:  characters with 
diacritics.  I understand why I can't use HTML character entity 
references and expect all feed readers to play nicely, so I tried 
encoding the ampersand in the HTML entity reference (a suggested fix 
that I can no longer document).  While this works great for some feed 
readers, other readers and the two major browsers display the raw 
code instead of the character with diacritical mark.

Other than displaying plain letters without diacritics, is there a 
way to code feeds so that all (or at least most) feed readers will 
display the character with the mark?  (I'd like to be able to this in 
item titles and descriptions.)

Thanks,

Bob Duncan


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Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
duncanr at lafayette.edu
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/