diff --git a/pelican/contents.py b/pelican/contents.py
index 938315f7..e4dfd037 100644
--- a/pelican/contents.py
+++ b/pelican/contents.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Page(object):
                 self.date_format = settings['DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT']
 
         if hasattr(self, 'date'):
-            self.locale_date = self.date.strftime(self.date_format).decode('utf')
+            self.locale_date = self.date.strftime(self.date_format.encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')).decode('utf')
 
         # store the settings ref.
         self._settings = settings
diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index a8e8d63e..35681ac1 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ class HtmlReader(object):
         for i in self._re.findall(content):
             key = i.split(':')[0][5:].strip()
             value = i.split(':')[-1][:-3].strip()
-            print [key,value]
             metadatas[key.lower()] = value
 
         return content, metadatas