--- mt-rssfeed.pl.orig	Wed Dec 11 21:08:40 2002
+++ mt-rssfeed.pl	Wed Apr 23 08:49:38 2003
@@ -282,11 +282,13 @@
 				if ($tag=~/^description/) {
 					# entity encoding HTML is evil!!!
 					# take our best shot at working with it.
-					$value=($value=~/&amp;lt;/ && MT->VERSION<'2.50')?_decode_xml_fallback($value):decode_xml($value);						
+					$value=decode_xml($value);		
 					remove_html($value) unless ($tag=~/encoded$/)
 				}
-				# deal with 2.21's decode_xml bug
-				return MT->VERSION<'2.50'?_decode_xml_fallback($value):decode_xml($value);
+				# strip control-characters 
+				my $spoo = decode_xml($value);
+				$spoo =~ s/[\x80-\x9F]//g;
+				return $spoo;
 			}
 		}
 		return '';