We are using the syndicated content asset in 7.3.18 to pull from two webgui rss enabled collab systems on the same site and seeing encoded text in the body (description) of the information for punctuation like single quotes and hyphens, e.g. – (amperstand followed by ndash and a semi-colon). This does not happen with punctuation in the title of a post. 

I had mixed results when trying to duplicate on demo. (http://demo.plainblack.com/demo1196119016_902/my_content) I could get the syndicated content to show posts that I'd just typed into the collab's rich editor, but the syndicated content asset ignored everything after my first post. (/test_rss) I also tried to include it in the latest news syndicated content, because our site is interleaving two collabs, but that also ignored subsequent posts.

Susan B