# Notifications menu shows raw backslash escapes in titles

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-menu-shows-raw-backslash-escapes-in-titles/58028>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2017 年 2 月 27 日午後 5:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-menu-shows-raw-backslash-escapes-in-titles/58028 "2017-02-27T17:07:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2017 年 3 月 10 日午後 9:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-menu-shows-raw-backslash-escapes-in-titles/58028/6 "2017-03-10T21:43:43Z")

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I see… was reading through the code, will leave it for @codinghorror to decide.

The reason this happens is due to:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785/lib/html_prettify.rb#L179-L194>

Should I remove this magic?

Or maybe our topic titles should be passed through the prettfier prior to being sent as notifications. Not sure.

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