[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41208: Dashboard News & Events widget does not properly handle entities (e.g. en/em dash)

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#41208: Dashboard News & Events widget does not properly handle entities (e.g.
en/em dash)
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 Reporter:  nickciske       |       Owner:  iandunn
     Type:  defect (bug)    |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |     Focuses:
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Comment (by shedonist):

 I think this issue may have been resolved by Meetup itself. I tried
 editing one of my future meetups
 (https://www.meetup.com/WordpressDevSeacoast/events/243889267/ - on
 1/11/18) to contain an endash or an emdash and it shows properly both in
 Meetup and also when I looked at it in the dashboard (search for
 "Nottingham") and the "Users — TBD" meetup shows fine.

 Steps: What I did was paste the entity directly into the meetup title.
 Then I waited for the widget to refresh itself (I deleted my local
 transients, but it seems like Meetup or something up the chain was caching
 the titles for a bit). I am able to find my meetup at the moment by
 searching for "Nottingham" (this narrows the search so I can see further
 ahead to the Jan meetup). Once the updated "Users — TBD" title appeared in
 the widget, it was displaying correctly.

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