# Discourse email notification shows HTML entities for ampersand etc

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-notification-shows-html-entities-for-ampersand-etc/172965>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 11, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-notification-shows-html-entities-for-ampersand-etc/172965 "2020-12-11T09:55:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jonathan5/32/197134_2.png) [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-email-notification-shows-html-entities-for-ampersand-etc/172965/1 "2020-12-11T09:55:32Z")

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I dismissed it before thinking of taking a screenshot, but a recent iOS notification from my forum showed `&amp;` for an & in the post title, and HTML entities for single ‘smart quotes’.

If this isn’t a bug then I would be grateful to be told the relevant site (or iPhone?) setting to fix it.

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