Technicalities

I got sidetracked in pontificating and haven't paid enough attention to the technicalities of my "blogging software" - a Perl script that runs stuff through Template::Toolkit (I don't know why; I've always preferred HTML::Template) and does some parsing to build the atom.xml file. And I've gotten all fancy-pants since the old days, and I know people with crazy high-order characters in their names and something along the lines is helpfully converting them instead of leaving them as proper ampersand-thingies.

So mostly this is a test post to see if I have convinced it to maybe process things a little less. C'mon, it's good organic HTML, it should be left raw as long as possible, right?