# Why can't this RSS feed send apostrophes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 4, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-this-rss-feed-send-apostrophes/458837 "2008-08-04T20:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-this-rss-feed-send-apostrophes/458837/1 "2008-08-04T20:13:28Z")
I am subscribed to the RSS feed from [www.Liveleak.com](http://www.Liveleak.com) through Outlook 2007. When I receive a notice of a new article, it always screws up the apostrophes in the description, as in the following example: > [@](#): > > Iranian Experts have recently finished work on a new class of submarine called ‘Hath AL Adda’ meaning ‘Dark menace of the deep sea on the wings of a large bird’ It only occurs in this one feed, and every apostrophe in every desciption is broken. Other RSS feeds have no problems with apostrophes, so i don’t think it is an Outlook 2007 thing, or anything on my end. What would cause the descriptions to be screwed up like this? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-this-rss-feed-send-apostrophes/458837/2 "2008-08-04T20:25:49Z")
Badly written software on their end is double-escaping their apostrophes. (Confirmed by viewing the source XML of their feed.) They _should_ be escaped like this: ’ which your browser/RSS reader would render as: ’ Instead, they’re getting escaped like that and then escaped _again_, so they look like this: ’ which gets rendered as '. Oops.