Print decode special characters in wpseo_title

Hello Outerbridge,

Thanks for reaching out about your SEO title. I tested this by using the phrase à l'étranger as the SEO title, and it worked well. Here’s what it looks like in the frontend and what it looks like in the page source.

Can you share a screenshot of the result when you try from your end without using that filter? Also, are you using the latest versions of WordPress and Yoast SEO?

Hello Maybellyne

Thank you for your reply and the screenshots. I am using WP6.1.1. and Yoast 19.11.

Apologies, I don’t think my previous post displayed correctly…
I am seeing the same results as you but rather than seeing <title>à l& #039;étranger</title> in the raw source code, I would like the actual text <title>à l'étranger</title>. I.e. I want the source code to display ' not & #039; (space added to make it print on screen).

With and without the code in my opening post, I get the same output as you in your last screenshot https://pasteboard.co/ws310CSrs3zk.png

Many thanks
Outerbridge

@outerbridge

To clarify, Unicode escape encoded characters can be properly read by Googlebot and other crawlers without any issues, there won’t be any issues with it.

For instance, if you check this article https://yoast.com/making-the-web-better/, the title is <title>Making the web better: an interview with Joost & Omar • Yoast</title>. It shows the encoded value for the ampersand and the title separator, but if you hover over the browser tab, the correct title should show up. Also you can see the correct SEO title on the search result here.

You would also expect that this would be the title that would output in the search results and not the one with encoded values.

I hope that clarifies your concern.

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Many thanks!