Title: Widget encoding
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Widget encoding

 *  [majorthomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/majorthomas/)
 * (@majorthomas)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-encoding/)
 * Hello,
 * I noticed some encoding issues in widget (? symbols appeared).
 * I debug it in format_content function by replacing :
    `return html_entity_decode(
   $string );` to : `return html_entity_decode( $string, ENT_COMPAT, $this->charset);`
 * Could you test and add this in future release please ?
 * Thanks in advance !
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-encoding/#post-4044446)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for the notice! I just created an [issue](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/issues/13)
   for this, just in case you want to keep track of it. Also, I’ll be using ENT_QUOTES
   instead to escape single & double quotes as well.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-encoding/#post-4044446)
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