Some characters are shown as HTML entities

How do you expect them to show up in the HTML code?

Same problem here.

for example: 'link popularity'
comes out like: &#039;link popularity&#039;

how about not converting to html characters :)

The OP was not clear because the text contained HTML entities, which were rendered to the equivalent characters. I edited the posts to show the HTML entities as plain text.

To show a HTML entity in a issue report without it is converted, remember to insert it as <code>&</code>aring;, or <code>&</code>#039;.

At the very least, I have to escape the double-quote. I'll have to look myself, but can you find any documentation that supports not encoding such values?

On the W3C website, the value passed for the content attribute is reported to be CDATA (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-META), which means that:

CDATA is a sequence of characters from the document character set and may include character entities. User agents should interpret attribute values as follows:

• Replace character entities with characters,
• Ignore line feeds,
• Replace each carriage return or tab with a single space

I would think that is exactly the opposite of what suggested: the browser should replace the character entities before to use the meta tags.

@KiamLaLuno: so, to just make sure I'm reading things right, the character entities I'm doing for ", ', etc. should be totally valid. Correct?

For those that noticed this being a problem, how are you using the tags? Do you have an example of how this is actually breaking something (e.g. Google search results)?

@fractile81: You are understanding correctly.

It would be interesting to know how the meta tags set with the module are used. Any browser should be able to correctly show the meta tags, even if they contain entities.
To notice that the link I reported refers to HTML 4.0, and it is still valid for XHTML too. I would expect that any browser is able to correctly handle the meta tags, by now.

I am closing this issue, which is for a not supported Drupal version.