diff --git a/includes/theme.inc b/includes/theme.inc
index 25f89f9..83ee3ed 100644
--- a/includes/theme.inc
+++ b/includes/theme.inc
@@ -2112,7 +2112,7 @@ function theme_more_help_link($variables) {
  *   - title: A descriptive title of the feed.
  */
 function theme_feed_icon($variables) {
-  $text = t('Subscribe to @feed-title', array('@feed-title' => $variables['title']));
+  $text = t('Subscribe to !feed-title', array('!feed-title' => $variables['title']));
   if ($image = theme('image', array('path' => 'misc/feed.png', 'width' => 16, 'height' => 16, 'alt' => $text))) {
     return l($image, $variables['url'], array('html' => TRUE, 'attributes' => array('class' => array('feed-icon'), 'title' => $text)));
   }
diff --git a/modules/simpletest/tests/common.test b/modules/simpletest/tests/common.test
index 437b67c..8848b5c 100644
--- a/modules/simpletest/tests/common.test
+++ b/modules/simpletest/tests/common.test
@@ -2587,3 +2587,30 @@ class DrupalAddFeedTestCase extends DrupalWebTestCase {
     return $generated_pattern;
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Test for theme_feed_icon().
+ */
+class FeedIconTest extends DrupalWebTestCase {
+
+  public static function getInfo() {
+    return array(
+      'name' => 'Feed icon',
+      'description' => 'Check escaping of theme_feed_icon()',
+      'group' => 'System',
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Check that special characters are correctly escaped. Test for issue #1211668.
+   */
+  function testFeedIconEscaping() {
+    $variables = array();
+    $variables['url'] = 'node';
+    $variables['title'] = '<>&"\'';
+    $text = theme_feed_icon($variables);
+    preg_match('/title="(.*?)"/', $text, $matches);
+    $this->assertEqual($matches[1], 'Subscribe to &amp;&quot;&#039;', 'theme_feed_icon() escapes reserved HTML characters.');
+  }
+
+}