Special characters in title don't display properly

I'm also seeing this. The title "Test's" shows as "Test&039;s"

This was giving me an issue when using an entity reference field in a contextual filter on a view. Entities where the Title contains an apostrophe are not being selected by a contextual filter on Title, which I suppose is comparing the actual Titles of the content type (without HTML entity versions of the apostrophe) with the Titles held by the entity reference field (which have the HTML entity versions of the apostrophe).

I got round this by passing the Nid as an argument and using that instead, but I could see this being a problem where someone really did need to filter on the Title.

I'm having the same problem where my ampersands in title fields are displaying as their HTML entity (&amp) in the select lists. It looks like this issue was addressed separately in the References module at http://drupal.org/node/1391814, although I don't know if it's the same problem and/or solution.

Hi,
I'm having the same problem with the & symbol in a node title and using a select list.
Does anybody have a solution or a temporary workaround for this?
I don't know exactly how this is solved for the References module in the latest dev.

I have dirty-fixed this issue since I have also been experiencing '&' issue and to be honest, I simply don't like to see this in the options list.

I have discovered the function "filter_xss_admin" in "entityreference_plugin_style.inc" is to blame. Unless someone reviews the necessity of converting each entity to the code there might only be dirty fixes.

See #1665818: Ampersands and other characters are not displayed correctly in <select> widgets

How did you fix this? I've got an apostrophe that should in my entity list as ' that I would like to get rid of.

Thanks
Sharon

I added this bit of Javascript into page.tpl.php which I found on another thread (I've changed it include encoded apostrophes):

<script type="text/javascript">
(function ($) {
  Drupal.behaviors.correct_ampersand = {
    attach: function(context, settings) {
      /** Change &amp; back to & in select options **/
      $('select option').each(function() {
        var text = $(this).text();
        if (text.indexOf('&amp;') >= 0) {
          text = text.replace("&amp;", "&");
        }
        if (text.indexOf('&#039;') >= 0) {
          text = text.replace("&#039;", "'");
        }
        $(this).text(text);
      });
    }
  }
})
(jQuery);
</script>

Original code by this chap here: https://www.drupal.org/node/1665818#comment-8507309

Phil

Phil - Thanks this works great!

Sharon

Patch on comment #32 at https://www.drupal.org/node/1665818#comment-7069158 works for me with Drupal 7.36 and Entity Reference 7.x-1.1

It's related to this core bug.

#9 works fine for me. +1

I'm running latest 7.50.x core and still experiencing this issue, so it's not fixed by #12 or #13, unless I'm missing something.

#11 works for me manually applied against the latest dev release.

You can use this function drupal_html_to_text($string, $allowed_tags = NULL) to remove special character from any string.

You will get the output of You Know You’ to "You Know You’".

You need to write hook_node_presave in your custom module to use "drupal_html_to_text()".

Example Code :
Create custom module and put below code.

function Mymodule_node_presave($node){  
  $node->title = drupal_html_to_text($node->title);
}

There is no patch to review.

Closing as duplicate of #2400689: Special characters in node titles are not rendered correctly

Use htmlspecialchars_decode() function

Maybe this helps someone somehow. Its a different context but i had also an issue with special characters using the t() function.

If the node title is like this: Hello here comes my special character '
The ' would be rendered as #039;

 $false_output = t('This title will render wrong: @title', array(
              '@title' => $node->title,
  ));

Changing the placeholder variable prefix from @ to ! solved my issue. As it outputs the title as it is, without any restriction.

$correct_output = t('This title will render wrong: !title', array(
           '!title' => $node->title,
 ));