I actually fixed the problem, although it might not be the most correct/elegant solution.
In wp-includes/feed-functions.php
function get_the_title_rss() {
$title = get_the_title();
// $title = apply_filters('the_title', $title);
$title = apply_filters('the_title_rss', $title);
return $title;
Commenting out that line changed the offending “right single quotation mark” (aka ’) into the straight up and down apostrophe that apparently magpie can handle no problem.
Before I started digging in the code I was playing with the encoding, and was in for a HECK of a surprise when I changed it to UTF-16.
Moshu – The blog itself isn’t really up yet but its located at http://www.tradersguideoftexas.com/blurb/ and to get the headlines into our main page I’m using RSS, the page that is displaying the RSS feed right now is http://www.tradersguideoftexas.com/wordpress.php
I’m having the exact same problem, thats uncanny. In my RSS feed the title has the curlier apostrophe, while the description has the straight up and down one.
I’m using magpieRSS to parse the feed, and get the question mark instead of the apostrophe as well. Any progress on this?
