XML compatible data?

[neoapproach]

&#9733 <-- how do i use PHP to parse this funny symbol , so it will works as compatible type under XML

so my RSS will works?

using regex?

[teaperson]

You could try using html_entity_decode() to convert it into a character. Or if you go to that page in the php documentation, there's an example of how to convert a numeric entity into UTF-8.