Re: Drupal eating spaces in RSS feeds, is this a bug?

Moazam Raja wrote:

> Drupal will take certain RSS feeds and start chopping spaces, and/or
> adding spaces to the content text!! For example, if you look at this feed:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/tucker
>
> The RSS feed is fine and the content is fine...but when Drupal reads it
> over, it screws up the text. "How we're" becomes "Howwe're" and "create
> an" becomes "createan".
>
>  
The content in that feed has hard returns at the end of each line.  So, 
drupal is taking "how(hard return)we're" and turning it into "howwe're".
I'm not sure this is a bug.  Drupal is just trying to make the content 
into a friendly format, but the content is badly formatted.  For content 
intended for the web there shouldn't be hard returns in the middle of 
lines.  If there are hard returns, then the content should at least 
provide spaces, since aggregators shouldn't have to guess whether the 
content has embedded spaces or not.
- Todd

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