Knoxd

One bug that has plagued Knox'd since it's launch was that some feeds contained characters that were displayed in their Unicode format. Essentially, characters like "*" were appearing as

*

I fixed this issue by adding a Django template filter to the feed item title. Now they're converted to markdown syntax, which makes sure characters appear correctly, and then stripped of any HTML.

There is a better way to do this on the backend, but this resolves the issue and takes only a few minutes.

Post a comment if you spot any lingering instances of this issue.