If a feed contains HTML tags (like <) in the title of an article, those tags are not properly rendered. The main problem happens if there is a <something> text inside, this is entirely missing on the screen (probably because it is "rendered" twice, resulting in an invalid (ignored) markup tag. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 87680 [details] CMake commit feed exposing the problem
The attached file is HTML. Do you have an example feed (RSS or atom)?
Created attachment 90349 [details] RSS testcase
RSS2 can contain both plain text or HTML without any clear identification what's contained. So finding out if the contained <, > constitute a tag is guesswork. To fix this issue, one could try harder to check if the tag is valid ("<lt and>" isn't) or use a whitelist of html tags instead of accepting everything that looks like a tag.
The problem arises when I write something in the subject line like "fix <p> tag being handled wrong" or something like that.
This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present? If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of akregator (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.08 or later), it gets closed in about three months.
Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.