I dismissed it before thinking of taking a screenshot, but a recent iOS notification from my forum showed & 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.

Apologies for the delay @Jonathan5 , I just tried to reproduce this and wasn’t able to. I tried with a regular ampersand character (&), with smart quotes or with & (without backticks), no luck. I’ll keep this open for a little while longer, just in case you (or someone else) see this again and c…

I’ve spotted this again and this time took more notice. It’s in the Subject header of the post/topic notification emails from my own forum, as viewed on Outlook or Mail on iOS and therefore as displayed on the iOS (email) preview notifications. It’s not a notification from the Discourse Hub app an…

Final message! I finally found time to look into this. The & in the title comes directly from the RSS feed that is being used to create the topic. So it’s a problem with that and not a problem with Discourse at all. Sorry for causing the inconvenience!

No worries, thanks for getting to the bottom of the issue.

Discourse notificación por correo electrónico muestra entidades HTML para ampersand etc

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pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) 6 Enero, 2021 13:14 8

No te preocupes, gracias por averiguar la causa del problema.

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