How To Handle Special Characters In RSS Generated By PHP?
I generate RSS 2.0 using PHP from mysql DB, for example:
echo "<title>" . $title . </title>";
echo "<link>" . $link . </link>";
echo "<description>" . $description . "</description>">
The problem is, sometime there are special characters in $description or $title, for example, trademark symbol. Is there a function which can remove these characters? I tried to use htmlspecialchars ($description), which only work with HTML tags.
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