User Samar_Othmeni reports an issue with HTML entities appearing instead of apostrophes in notification pop-ups on their self-hosted Discourse instance. The text “J'ai compris !” appears instead of “J’ai compris !”. Moin welcomes them and links to a previous report. JammyDodger suggests a workaround by customizing the site text to manually correct the apostrophe. pmusaraj notes that this issue is a duplicate of a previously reported bug, which has since been fixed.
Hello everyone 
I’m currently facing a small display bug in my self-hosted Discourse instance (version [add your version if known]).
When a user receives their first notification, the popup shows an HTML entity instead of a proper apostrophe. Instead of showing:
“J’ai compris !”
It renders:
“J'ai compris !”
Here’s a screenshot of the issue:
Has anyone seen this before or found a workaround for it?
Thanks in advance for your help 
Welcome to Meta 
This was reported before in
I think there is a workaround if you wanted an immediate change while waiting for a fix.
Overriding that text using the customise site text option seems to clear it up nicely:
Before:
After:
For that I went to the /admin/customize/site_texts page and searched for js.user_tips.button. I then edited it and just retyped ‘J’ai compris !’ and saved.
Though hopefully a proper fix shouldn’t take too long. 
Duplicate of 🇫🇷 Special characters encoding issue in onboarding tips, now fixed via FIX: user tips in languages with apostrophes by pmusaraj · Pull Request #34118 · discourse/discourse · GitHub though. Thanks for the report!
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