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[Bug]: RSS XML is double encoding in <title> tag and should not. #5171

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Summary

Please forgive if this is already known - I did not see this exact issue.

RSS feeds, for example here, are providing double-encoded html/xml:

<title>Polling the group: what do y&amp;#x27;all know about the Orion browser from Kagi?</title>

While it should be providing either of these:

<title>Polling the group: what do y'all know about the Orion browser from Kagi?</title>

<title>Polling the group: what do y&#x27;all know about the Orion browser from Kagi?</title>

This causes interpretation issues with RSS readers. Please also see this FreshRSS post for more info.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Look at any feed.xml that tries to use ' or " etc encoding and find an example.

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Version

BE: 0.19.3-6-g86e4cb214

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