get_the_title & wp_json_encode outputting [&-#8217;] instead of [‘]

Hi,

I am using this code:

for($x = 0;$x<100;$x++) {
		$list_array[ $x ]['year'] = get_post_meta($list_posts[$x], 'copyrightyear', true);
		$list_array[ $x ]['imdb'] = get_post_meta($list_posts[$x], 'imdb_rating', true);
		$list_array[ $x ]['title'] = get_the_title($list_posts[$x]);
		$list_array[ $x ]['url']   = get_the_permalink($list_posts[$x]);
		
	}
	
	echo wp_json_encode( array( 'items' => $list_array ) );
	return wp_json_encode( array( 'items' => $list_array ) );

I have tried esc_html(get_the_title($list_posts[$x])); as well.

But somehow the output is not showing the correct format. It’s showing [&-#8217;], [&-#038;], etc.

How do I modify the output?
Regards

• This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by FlixWatch Support. Reason: Have added hypen in code to show the problem

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