Index: wp-includes/widgets.php
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--- wp-includes/widgets.php	(revision 8856)
+++ wp-includes/widgets.php	(working copy)
@@ -1039,6 +1039,15 @@
 		add_action('wp_head', 'wp_widget_recent_comments_style');
 }
 
+// added for title truncation of long feeds
+function dot_truncate($str, $len, $dots = "...") {
+	if (strlen($str) > $len) {
+		$dotlen = strlen($dots);
+		return substr_replace($str, $dots, $len - $dotlen);
+	}
+	return $str;
+}
+
 // See large comment section at end of this file
 function wp_widget_rss($args, $widget_args = 1) {
 	extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
@@ -1127,7 +1136,11 @@
 			$desc = '';
 			$summary = '';
 			if ( isset( $item['description'] ) && is_string( $item['description'] ) )
+			{
 				$desc = $summary = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), ' ', attribute_escape(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($item['description'], ENT_QUOTES))));
+				// fix: truncate title at N chars
+				$desc = dot_truncate($desc, 500);
+			}
 			elseif ( isset( $item['summary'] ) && is_string( $item['summary'] ) )
 				$desc = $summary = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), ' ', attribute_escape(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($item['summary'], ENT_QUOTES))));