From 460753244070306ad09f8cb1f9011a8327f7b94c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nmemmert <nmemmert@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 19:16:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Decode HTML entities in RSS episode descriptions; v2.0.20

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 package.json          |  2 +-
 server/rss-helpers.js | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 56f373e..3299e85 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "siteforge",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "2.0.19",
+  "version": "2.0.20",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",
diff --git a/server/rss-helpers.js b/server/rss-helpers.js
index 6310642..eb34868 100644
--- a/server/rss-helpers.js
+++ b/server/rss-helpers.js
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ export function extractCdata(raw) {
   return cdata ? cdata[1].trim() : raw.trim()
 }
 
+function decodeEntities(str) {
+  return str
+    .replace(/&amp;/g, '&')
+    .replace(/&lt;/g, '<')
+    .replace(/&gt;/g, '>')
+    .replace(/&quot;/g, '"')
+    .replace(/&apos;/g, "'")
+    .replace(/&#39;/g, "'")
+    .replace(/&#(\d+);/g, (_, n) => String.fromCharCode(Number(n)))
+    .replace(/&#x([0-9a-fA-F]+);/g, (_, h) => String.fromCharCode(parseInt(h, 16)))
+    .replace(/&nbsp;/g, ' ')
+}
+
 export function parseRssItems(xml, limit = Infinity) {
   const items = []
   const itemRegex = /<item>([\s\S]*?)<\/item>/g
@@ -22,7 +35,7 @@ export function parseRssItems(xml, limit = Infinity) {
     const enclosureUrl = /<enclosure[^>]+url="([^"]+)"/.exec(block)?.[1] ?? ''
     const link = guid.startsWith('http') ? guid : enclosureUrl
     const descRaw = /<description>([\s\S]*?)<\/description>/.exec(block)?.[1] ?? ''
-    const descText = extractCdata(descRaw).replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
+    const descText = decodeEntities(extractCdata(descRaw).replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '')).replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim()
     const duration = (/<itunes:duration>([\s\S]*?)<\/itunes:duration>/.exec(block)?.[1] ?? '').trim()
     const episode = (/<itunes:episode>([\s\S]*?)<\/itunes:episode>/.exec(block)?.[1] ?? '').trim()
     const season = (/<itunes:season>([\s\S]*?)<\/itunes:season>/.exec(block)?.[1] ?? '').trim()