Emailed "notes to author" have their special HTML characters encoded

theme_modr8_note is encoding quotes and HTML special characters, which looks strange in plain text emails; for example, that's becomes that's. It's happening when theme_modr8_note uses @note to translate the text:

function theme_modr8_note($note){
  if ($note){
    $note = t("Note:
  @note", array('@note' => $note));
  }
  return $note;
}

I'd recommend that it use !note instead.. if the note needs to be escaped somewhere, it can be run through check_plain or re-translated with an @ there.

My workaround, in a theme's template.php:

function themename_modr8_note($note) {
  if ($note)
    $note = t("Note:\n  !note", array('!note' => $note));
  return $note;
}