Displaying HTML objects in RSS feed

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi Guys -

I'm having a problem displaying HTML objects (like not equals signs, apostrophes, etc) in the RSS title and description fields. Right now, I have it stored in my database as

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≠

for not equals. Then I'll run

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xml_convert()

on the string which then would convert things like apostrophes into

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'

.

When I view the feed that's all I see. How can I get it to display properly in a feed reader or a browser?

I've tried html_decode and still no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.