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Not really a bug. I experienced the same issue a while ago with french translation.

Let me explain:

when translating, all strings going through php need to use ascii, like & nbsp; for a space.

the same string going normal nedd only a invisible (tabed) space.

The email messages are the exception in this handle. They have not to translate special caracters. Translators have to write them usually, not with ascci caracters.

If you use poEdit, you can rewrite the email messages in your natural language or ask the author. His name is normaly in the header of the pot file. You can also find his name on the BP i18nn trac:

https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser

Oh, and to escape in emails code, you have to use anti slash, not slash as given in your explanation.

I tried the anti-slash and double anti-slash…still nothing. The emails are picking up this string from the general options “blog title”. I don’t know of any other way to make it work.

I have the exact same problem.
My buddypress group is called Writers’ Bloc
However the email post notifications always get delivered as
Writers&#039 ; Bloc (ampersand hash zero three nine semicolon instead of apostrophe, I added a space so you can see the problem)

I have not figured out a way to have it appear as an apostrophe in the emails. Is this a buddypress bug? or post notifications?

I know PHP so if someone can direct me to the right file I can probably fix it myself…

I too am having this issue with topic notification email…

What’s your biggest challenge?

becomes

What&#039 ;s your biggest challenge?

I mostly see this in the subject line, but sometimes in the body, and not just with an apostrophe but double-quotes, etc.

@johnnyjonjon,

When untranslated, obviously, an apostrophe is the same as a single quote, and primes are either a double quote or a single quote. And, when texturized, an apostrophe uses the same HTML entity (& 8 217 ; – without space) as a closing single quote. You may have a desire to translate these, or there may be no need to. That’s fine.
source: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/important-changes-for-wordpress-3-4/

Translation of email message must be writen normally.

in a php string, what’s new should be written what & # 39; s new (without space) (iso latin-1)
the ampersanded company name in the po file should be: A & a m p; M(without space)

in a email message (and only in email message), you write what’s new or A&M

BP use UTF8 charset by default and XML transitionnal encoding

That’ said, some mail reader’s convert  html entities into what?new or what â € ™ s. In such case you have to check your mail software or browser settings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html
http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/spchar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

@johnnyjonjon

Let me resume.

Notification email contain malformed strings.

The affected part is the subject Right ?
FROM: bla@blabla.bla – your explanation about this field is not clear, because “FROM” contain a mail address by default, so i don’t understand what’s wrong for you.

SUBJECT: bla bla Courtesy,  something & thing. Where & (coming through the site name shortcode used in the email form is not correctly outputed. Right ?

I would try to go into the site settings where the site name is defined and change the original A&T by the ampersanded html:  A & amp ; T (without space)

As BP 1.7 stable is now on hand, install it first. Maybe this will solve the problem. If not, you’re welcome back !

Or better if this persist, open a ticket on Trac.

sorry, I can never post any code here not sure why..

Chouf1, thanks for following me on this topic… Not sure what I’m doing wrong here.. I updated to BP 1.7 stable (I’m also running latest WP), did some tests with notifications and am still get the & amp ; in just the display name of the email (subject is still fine). I reversed the translations that I did in the language files for site name to add & amp ; to no avail… One thing I didn’t try is add a translation to just Name & Name – I’ll try that now.

Regarding your question, I’ve tried to add & amp ; to the site title in general settings and it’s always converted to just &. In the source, it’s output as & amp ;. Not sure how to proceed to fix.. I’ll try the above-

dudes, I feel like a dummy… this resolved my issue:

`
add_filter(‘wp_mail_from’, ‘new_mail_from’);
add_filter(‘wp_mail_from_name’, ‘new_mail_from_name’);

function new_mail_from($old) {
return ’email@youraddresshere.com’;
}
function new_mail_from_name($old) {
return ‘Name and Stuff & Stuff’;
}
`