Title: Seeing HTML entity code in title when using a hyphen
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# Seeing HTML entity code in title when using a hyphen
* [vickyharp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vickyharp/)
* (@vickyharp)
* [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seeing-html-entity-code-in-title-when-using-a-hyphen/)
* I’m not quite sure when this started happening, but I’m seeing the HTML entity
code for the hyphen character when used in the placemark title when it is between
whitespace characters. For example:
* DevConnections Spring 2012 – March 26-29, 2012
displays as DevConnections Spring
2012 &%8211; March 26-29, 2012
* However, if I change the title to this:
* DevConnections Spring 2012-March 26-29, 2012
* It displays properly.
* You can see the issue here:
* [http://vickyharp.com/sql-server-events/](http://vickyharp.com/sql-server-events/)
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/)
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* Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
* (@iandunn)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seeing-html-entity-code-in-title-when-using-a-hyphen/#post-3743533)
* A few people were having that problem during the RC stage for 1.10, but I couldn’t
reproduce the problem locally.
* I’m pretty busy right now, but I’ll try to take another shot at reproducing it.
If you notice any other details that might help troubleshoot it, please let me
know.
* [FranceImage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franceimage/)
* (@franceimage)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seeing-html-entity-code-in-title-when-using-a-hyphen/#post-3743538)
* Hello,
* You can see the problem when you hover on a marker on the google map.
* The problem is that you put html entities in the javascript variable.
* When the $placemark is created (in core.php) you call apply_filter(‘the_title’)
and apply_filter(‘the_content’) to set title and details.
* These 2 filters transform special characters into html entities (by the wptexturize
function which is systematically added in wp-includes/default-filters.php)
* What is the purpose of these filters when you create your placemarks ?
* Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
* (@iandunn)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seeing-html-entity-code-in-title-when-using-a-hyphen/#post-3743551)
* Yeah, it’s probably related to that, but I could never get it to happen on my
local install, even when I put HTML entities, Unicode characters, and anything
else I could think of in my test posts. I tried copying exactly what the reporters
had, but still couldn’t get it to happen, so I think there may be some other
factors involved.
* The purpose of passing the content through those filters is so that it will display
exactly the same as it would inside a post. For example, if someone wants to
put a shortcode inside the placemark details. It’s also a way of escaping the
content for security.
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