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Akregator’s new parser backend, libsyndication, is coming along nicely and more and more feeds of the test suite are parsed as expected.

However, to make the parser even better, more real-world test feeds are needed, feeds that I would never think of, feeds that use exotic encodings, (mis-)use the standards in creative ways, or contain additional information that is not covered by Akregator yet: your feeds.

If you have any feed in your feed list that isn’t rendered correctly, or that has some feature supported in other feed readers but not in Akregator, add it here. Exceptions are the well-known missing features, like categories, enclosures and advanced support for author information - these are already supported by libsyndication.

Some good criteria for a feed that would be useful for us:

• the feed has problems with character encoding (special characters or your non-latin script are not displayed correctly), linebreaks and whitespace.
• the feed isn’t rendered correctly in Akregator but Feed Validator doesn’t report errors.
• the feed isn’t rendered correctly in Akregator, Feed Validator reports errors, but the problem exists for a lot of feeds (e.g. because some widely used generator messes it up).
• The feed uses some RSS or Atom extension that you find important enough to be supported in coming Akregator versions.

You can add your test feeds to the Wiki page (preferred), add it here as comment, or send it by mail to the mailing list (no subscription needed).