Title: bugs in rss.php?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# bugs in rss.php?

 *  748616
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-in-rssphp/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I think I found some bugs in the wp-includes/rss.php file:
 * 1) In the **MagpieRSS** class, function **feed_start_element**, lines 186-197:
 *     ```
       elseif ($this->feed_type == ATOM and $el == 'link' )
       {
       	if ( isset($attrs['rel']) and $attrs['rel'] == 'alternate' )
       	{
       		$link_el = 'link';
       	}
       	else {
       		$link_el = 'link_' . $attrs['rel'];
       	}
       	$this->append($link_el, $attrs['href']);
       }
       ```
   
 * it doesn’t handle the case where the <link> element has no rel attribute, and
   puts the link into $item[‘link_’]. An example ATOM feed: [http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/categories/premium-sites-for-sale/feed](http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/categories/premium-sites-for-sale/feed)
   
   I think this is a bug in MagpieRSS, which is still there in the latest version.
   And I see wordpress is using an outdated MagpieRSS version (0.51 vs 0.72), why
   is that?
 * 2) Lines 850 (**wp_rss** function) and 869 (**get_rss** function) use htmlentities
   without the encoding parameter:
    `htmlentities( $item['title'] )` The same feed
   can be used as example (has UTF-8 encoding, it contains the pound sign which 
   doesn’t print well). It should be htmlentities( $item[‘title’], ENT_COMPAT, ‘
   UTF-8’ ) but I think the attribute_escape function would do the job. It’s a bug
   and I should report it, right?

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 *  [Christopher Anderton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anderton/)
 * (@anderton)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-in-rssphp/#post-808356)
 * Well. Thank you!
    It solved my problem with showing ÅÄÖ in feed titles!

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 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugs-in-rssphp/#post-808356)
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