How do I output the {{ .Content }} as HTML with character entities decoded?

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We are trying to get our RSS feeds in HUGO working and the problem we are running into is that all of our posts .md files (we have a few thousand) have special chars in them like ’

And XML does not support character entities. So they need to be transformed before being inserted into our feeds.

What is the best way to output the {{ .Content }} as HTML with character entities decoded?

In the RSS feed template, I am trying

this just encodes everything
<content:encoded>{{ .Content | html }}</content:encoded>

this produces decent HTML but the entities are not transformed.
<content:encoded>{{ .Content | safeHTML }}</content:encoded>

not sure if I should be using CDATA ot not…
<content:encoded>{{chomp "<![CDATA[\n"}}{{ .Content | safeHTML }}{{chomp "]]>\n"}}</content:encoded>

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So it looks like the correct function is:
<content:encoded>{{ htmlUnescape .Content | safeHTML }}</content:encoded>

However, I noticed that when we do pull in the full content, it also pulls in the shortcodes which will also need to be filtered or removed (sigh)

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The built in RSS template uses <description>{{ .Summary | html }}</description> if that’s helpful.

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Try this.
content:encoded{{ <![CDATA[ | safeHTML }}{{ .Content | safeHTML }}{{ ]]> | safeHTML }}</content:encoded>