RSS feed tech question

[Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Someone who knows the ins and outs of RSS may have some insight into this:

In my blog, http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/, as part of what I'm 
talking about is typography, I thought it would be a good idea to go the 
effort of using typographer's quotation marks and apostrophes, as 
opposed to ["] and [']. So, unless I forget, I use the html entities for 
those marks. I'm going to list them here for reference, but I'm going to 
add some internal spaces so nobody's mail reader or webmail interface 
has a conniption:

left double quote: & ldquo ;
right double quote: & rdquo ;
right single quote: & rsquo ;

In the blog itself (going to the above URL in a browser), everything 
looks dandy.

However, in the FeedBurner RSS feed, 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WordsMythAmpersVirgule, the right single 
quote acts as a delimiter. Everything between a pair of them is dropped 
from the post.

Example:

In my most recent post, about Father's day, the first paragraph is:

This is all my dad[right single quote]s fault.

Then there are four more paragraphs. Then the last paragraph is:

Happy Father[right single quote]s Day, Dad!

On the FeedBurner feed, the complete text of the post is rendered as:

This is all my dads Day, Dad!

That is, it is the first paragraph up to the apostrophe and the last 
paragraph after the apostrophe. The rest of the post--everything between 
the apostrophes--has fallen into the bit bucket.

Accessing the same post through the Technorati feed 
(http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com), 
there's no problem with apostrophes. I reported the issue to FeedBurner 
as a bug; and, in the meantime, I guess I can use the straight 
typewriter apostrophe if I have to; but I wondered if this is somehow 
consistent with the RSS spec, rather than just being a software bug.

Thanks,

Dick

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