Emoji in post titles (maybe bug? maybe my fault? maybe a feature request?) about share-on-mastodon HOT 3 CLOSED

I think get_the_title() returns HTML-encoded emoji (and quotes, and so on). And Mastodon then escapes that code, i.e., turns the literal & into &.

Looking at the source code of your website:

What might help is decode entities back to "raw" Unicode, so use html_entity_decode( get_the_title( $post ) ). Or better still, just unescape the whole thing just before returning it: return html_entity_decode( $status ).

Depending on your site's character encoding, you may need to pass a 2nd and 3rd parameter to html_entity_decode(), but 9 times out of 10 this is enough.

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Just thought I'd have to fix this in the plugin itself, too, but behold :-):

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Thanks so much, Jan! The single-line fix of adding return html_entity_decode( $status ) did the trick. Thanks for the quick and on-point response!

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