[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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Changes (by iandunn):

 * keywords:   => needs-patch
 * owner:   => iandunn
 * priority:  normal => low
 * status:  new => accepted
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => Future Release


Comment:

 I'm seeing this too. I haven't had time to really dig into it, but the
 `–` entity is returned by the w.org API, which seems appropriate at
 first glance.

 My first guess would be that `{{` is preventing the entity from being
 rendered. Running the data through `htmlspecialchars_decode()` before it
 gets returned from `get_events()` might be a good fix. I think that'd be
 safe, since it'd still be passed through `{{`, but we'd need to verify
 that.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/41208#comment:2>
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