diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 170c9953b9..ac1c7bc824 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ require_once('include/cache.php');
 require_once('library/Mobile_Detect/Mobile_Detect.php');
 
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_PLATFORM',     'Friendica');
-define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      '3.0.1423' );
+define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      '3.0.1424' );
 define ( 'DFRN_PROTOCOL_VERSION',  '2.23'    );
 define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',      1155      );
 
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 701a7ada7e..3b09dfa688 100755
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ function get_atom_elements($feed,$item) {
 		$res['body'] = escape_tags($res['body']);
 	}
 
+
 	// this tag is obsolete but we keep it for really old sites
 
 	$allow = $item->get_item_tags(NAMESPACE_DFRN,'comment-allow');
@@ -3328,7 +3329,6 @@ function atom_entry($item,$type,$author,$owner,$comment = false,$cid = 0) {
 	else
 		$body = $item['body'];
 
-
 	$o = "\r\n\r\n<entry>\r\n";
 
 	if(is_array($author))
diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
index 0fff5c7cc9..0e1a63792f 100644
--- a/include/network.php
+++ b/include/network.php
@@ -854,6 +854,10 @@ function scale_external_images($s, $include_link = true, $scale_replace = false)
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	// replace the special char encoding
+
+	$s = htmlspecialchars($s,ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');
 	return $s;
 }
 
diff --git a/mod/item.php b/mod/item.php
index d5c36ef76c..d82d54cfff 100644
--- a/mod/item.php
+++ b/mod/item.php
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 
 	$body = bb_translate_video($body);
 
+
 	/**
 	 * Fold multi-line [code] sequences
 	 */
@@ -447,6 +448,8 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 
 	$body = scale_external_images($body,false);
 
+
+
 	/**
 	 * Look for any tags and linkify them
 	 */
diff --git a/util/messages.po b/util/messages.po
index 86bf30b508..e9affd4dc9 100644
--- a/util/messages.po
+++ b/util/messages.po
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: 3.0.1423\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: 3.0.1424\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-08-02 10:00-0700\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-08-03 10:00-0700\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"