RSS feed title showing HMTL code

[jikometrix]

Steps to reproduce the issue

How can I get the Joomla 4 RSS to render single quotes as single quotes in the RSS feed? I get this ' instead of a single quote.

As a result the email notices of the RSS feed also show this oddity.

Create article with single quote in title then save and view RSS

Expected result

The Feed should read. "<title>You Know You're Different - How Can You Prove It?</title>"

Actual result

RSS feed tile says, "<title>You Know You&#39;re Different - How Can You Prove It?</title>"

System information (as much as possible)

See attached TXT file

Additional comments

[brianteeman]

I wasn't sure if you meant the RSS title or the RSS Item Title so I tried both

As can be seen the problem is on the item title only.

Hope that helps someone debug this

[brianteeman]

I believe that the line of code is

joomla-cms/libraries/src/Document/Renderer/Feed/RssRenderer.php

Line 181 in 132659f

$feed .= " <title>" . htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($data->items[$i]->title), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') . "</title>\n";

[jikometrix]

I think you are correct. How do we get the output to be a single quote for the feed though. I can see the htmlspecialchars is doing its job.

[jikometrix]

Do you have any thoughts on how to render character correctly for Feed?

[brianteeman]

I can no longer replicate this error - perhaps it was solved elsewhere?

[Fedik]

Can you please try to test this with:

htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($data->items[$i]->title), ENT_COMPAT | ENT_XML1, 'UTF-8')

Or just:

htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($data->items[$i]->title),  ENT_XML1, 'UTF-8')

[brianteeman]

The problem is that there are two different sets of code that is used for sanitizing the title.

If its a blog or list category then it uses

joomla-cms/libraries/src/MVC/View/CategoryFeedView.php

Lines 86 to 89 in 2a8b6bb

	// Strip html from feed item title
	if ($titleField) {
	$title = $this->escape($item->$titleField);
	$title = html_entity_decode($title, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

But if it is features articles (or some of the other components) then it uses

joomla-cms/components/com_content/src/View/Featured/FeedView.php

Lines 56 to 58 in 2a8b6bb

	// Strip html from feed item title
	$title = htmlspecialchars($row->title, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
	$title = html_entity_decode($title, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');