diff --git a/en/news/status/README b/en/news/status/README
index a3c5be48bf..cb58ad8108 100644
--- a/en/news/status/README
+++ b/en/news/status/README
@@ -29,10 +29,9 @@ Compiling status reports - best practices
the closing "/>" which is the cause for most of the errors you will
encounter. Sometimes other closing tags are missing.
- Invoking tidy with the following options seems to cause the fewest
- problems: tidy -xml -i -wrap 74 -latin1
+ problems: tidy -xml -i -wrap 74 -latin1 -preserve
- Some special characters still break with that - noticed when sos@
- submits a report. The o with the slash is "ø" in xml. Our current
- tools don't support "ø" from html.
+ submits a report.
- Remove empty "