Second Life ® trademark policy – little casulty

As an obedient resident of Second Life ® and maintainer of our shop’s update blog, I immediately updated our blog’s category name to reflect the new rules – I added an “®” to it. (How that is expected to look like has been outlined here!) The technique used to do that is called a named entity, that is you add an “&”, followed by “reg” and a semicolon into the HTML source code of your post or – in my case – in the category name. A web browser will later automagically expand that code to an “®”.

However, that turned out to be an not so clever step as my favorite feed reader can not read our blog posts anymore! That particular feed reader – FeedReader3 – is usually a very handy piece of software (and it’s free!) which does not make any problems, but in this case it just says:

Parser error ———-
Line:2
Reason:Reference to undefined entity ‘reg’.

Ok, there is always an alternative (isn’t it?) and so I tried the next entity by replacing “reg” by “#174″. And now, it seems to work. (Well, I had to save some of the blog’s post after updating the category’s name and had to update the feed in the reader…)

This was my little report on consequences of the new trademark policies, not as spectacular as exptected elsewhere, but hey, I did not even had my first “rezday”, so my problems need not be big ones!