History feed item is built using the “colon-separator” interface message which separates the author of the revision from the comment.

However, since the colon-separator contains “: ” currently, and the feed is XML-escaped afterwards, the resulting feed items display “ ” (see the URL for an example).

See includes/PageHistory.php, line 539.

A quick fix might consist of changing FeedItem::stripComment to replace HTML entities with the respective characters.

(OBTW, it seems we are a bit inconsistent with formatting/escaping comments, anyway, even on wiki…)

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Severity: trivial
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&feed=rss&action=history