diff --git a/wp-includes/default-filters.php b/wp-includes/default-filters.php
index 89a463b1f0..22cf716764 100644
--- a/wp-includes/default-filters.php
+++ b/wp-includes/default-filters.php
@@ -105,11 +105,12 @@ add_filter('sanitize_title', 'sanitize_title_with_dashes');
 // RSS filters
 add_filter('the_title_rss', 'strip_tags');
 add_filter('the_title_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8);
+add_filter('the_title_rss', 'wp_specialchars');
 add_filter('the_content_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8);
 add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'convert_chars');
 add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8);
 add_filter('comment_author_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8);
-add_filter('comment_text_rss', 'htmlspecialchars');
+add_filter('comment_text_rss', 'wp_specialchars');
 add_filter('comment_text_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8);
 add_filter('bloginfo_rss', 'ent2ncr', 8);
 add_filter('the_author', 'ent2ncr', 8);