I really need help! The the_content_rss has stoped working

Can anyone help me please?

Is there another way of showing the first 20 characters of a post?
I’m not planning on using Excerpt.

Really need some help here guys.

After some digging around, I went to the source.
the_content_rss function is loacted in the /wp-include/feed.php.

The code is as follows:

function the_content_rss($more_link_text='(more...)', $stripteaser=0, $more_file='', $cut = 0, $encode_html = 0) {
	$content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
	$content = apply_filters('the_content_rss', $content);

	if ( $cut && !$encode_html )
		$encode_html = 2;
	if ( 1== $encode_html ) {
		$content = wp_specialchars($content);
		$cut = 0;
	} elseif ( 0 == $encode_html ) {
		$content = make_url_footnote($content);
	} elseif ( 2 == $encode_html ) {
		$content = strip_tags($content);
	}
	if ( $cut ) {
		$blah = explode(' ', $content);
		if ( count($blah) > $cut ) {
			$k = $cut;
			$use_dotdotdot = 1;
		} else {
			$k = count($blah);
			$use_dotdotdot = 0;
		}
		for ( $i=0; $i<$k; $i++ )
			$excerpt .= $blah[$i].' ';
		$excerpt .= ($use_dotdotdot) ? '...' : '';
		$content = $excerpt;
	}
	$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
	echo $content;
}

I discovered that if I removed the line
$content = apply_filters('the_content_rss', $content);
it actually works.

So the problem lies within the apply_filters function.

Does anybody have any experience with the apply_filters function?

Right… now I updated to 2.6 and had forgotten this issue, until I search here again.

Is there ANYONE that can make a statement regarding this issue?

I will keep bumping this post until I get a sane answer.

It sure is quite in here…. I wonder if any moderators actually read this….

Just upgraded to 2.7.

Is this EVER gonna be fixed?