to be honest and to sound as arrogant as possible for a lightweight internet oppossum: i am not very delighted by rssmonkey. reason 1: it cannot handle rss 1.0 extensions, e.g. dublin core. reason 2: i have to download, install and configure a lot before i even can render any rss feed. reason 3: it's slow. reason 4: it makes crude things with a simple apostroph. reason 5: it has a better designed website than i have for my own rss utility. <g>

btw. when will we forget about the term "special" characters? e.g. like letters with hacek, ogonek or macron? they are bloody unspecial characters here in europe, so get used to support them.