RSS feed currently broken by illegal PCDATA chars in a post

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
content

Research direction

Start by locating the RSS-feed generation path for the linked post and reproduce the feed failure using the shown control character after “view”. Done means the RSS feed is valid and the offending control character is removed or excluded without altering the surrounding content.

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Description

The illegal chars can be found in the post "Glyph Lefkowitz: iOS Mail To Omnifocus Task":

<li>Continue holding down with your first finger.  With a <em>second</em> finger, swipe
  | up from the bottom to enter the multitasking view, or to go back to your
  | home screen.  While holding your first finger in place, either switch to or
  | launch OmniFocus.</li>

The char after "view" is causing the issue.

A simple measure would be replacing such control chars with empty strings.

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