diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index ec519ad9bf..39a61c4ad0 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ function atom_entry($item,$type,$author,$owner,$comment = false) {
 	$o .= '<published>' . xmlify(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$item['created'] . '+00:00',ATOM_TIME)) . '</published>' . "\r\n";
 	$o .= '<updated>' . xmlify(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$item['edited'] . '+00:00',ATOM_TIME)) . '</updated>' . "\r\n";
 	$o .= '<dfrn:env>' . base64url_encode($body, true) . '</dfrn:env>' . "\r\n";
-	$o .= '<content type="' . $type . '" >' . xmlify(($type === 'html') ? bbcode($body) : $body) . '</content>' . "\r\n";
+	$o .= '<content type="' . $type . '" >' . xmlify((($type === 'html') ? bbcode($body) : $body)) . '</content>' . "\r\n";
 	$o .= '<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="' . xmlify($a->get_baseurl() . '/display/' . $owner['nickname'] . '/' . $item['id']) . '" />' . "\r\n";
 	if($comment)
 		$o .= '<dfrn:comment-allow>' . intval($item['last-child']) . '</dfrn:comment-allow>' . "\r\n";
diff --git a/include/text.php b/include/text.php
index 803bf0e510..b13cf980f2 100644
--- a/include/text.php
+++ b/include/text.php
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ if(! function_exists('xmlify')) {
 function xmlify($str) {
 	$buffer = '';
 	
-	for($x = 0; $x < strlen($str); $x ++) {
+	for($x = 0; $x < mb_strlen($str); $x ++) {
 		$char = $str[$x];
         
 		switch( $char ) {