New follower notification incorrectly encodes special characters

[obenland]

Quick summary

From: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-follower-notification-incorrectly-encodes-special-characters/

The follower name in the email notice of a new follower, incorrectly escapes special characters in the follower name, resulting in stuff like the following:

Subject: [website name] Follower: Nabor's Grange

Body:

New Follower: Nabor's Grange

Steps to reproduce

URL: https://rollenspiel.social/@naborsgrange

Site owner impact

Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Minor

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No revenue impact

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

No response

[github-actions]

This issue could use some more labels, to help prioritize and categorize our work. Could you please add at least a [Type], a [Feature], and a [Pri] label?

[obenland]

I also came a cross that recently in a Like notification email : … liked this!

[obenland]

This should be fixed for Followers by #1172.