> Is there a way to handle special text formatting, such as
> superscripts, in feeds?
>
> For example, I want to make the titles look nice in feeds from the
> Journal of Chemical Physics (http://scitation.aip.org/rss/jcp4.xml).
> They currently have ugly constructs like "(HCN)[sub n][sup -]". It
> gets positively unreadable for articles involving any kind of
> spectroscpic notation.
>
> My first attempt was to replace the brackets with HTML formatting,
> like "(HCN)_n^-". However, the HTML tags do not
> carry though in the RSS readers I tried (Yahoo and Google).

Try to encode < as &lt; and > as &gt; but first check the specs if it is
allowed in titles.

Regards,

Jacek Kolonko