Greetings! I have an active buddypress powered community of about 600 (love it!) but for sometime now I’ve been unable to track down why email alerts when you are subscribed to a forum do not parse special quotes and apostrophes. They come through like this:

http://i.imgur.com/LWTwE.jpg

Any help in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated!

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1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
3.3.2

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
Nope

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
Yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?
1.5.5

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
no

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
-BuddyPress Activity Plus
-BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
-BuddyPress Pending Activations

Are my buddypress related addons/plugins. The Group Email subscription being installed or not doesn’t have any effect on my problem.

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
Custom (Paraellus – Salutation)

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
No

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
No

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
2.0.2

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
None

14. Which company provides your hosting?
Hostgator

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
LAMP

[@gunnargabrielson Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

# sign and other special characters (shif+number keys) are also not parsing but are being spat out as unparsed html.

[@chouf1 Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

Hi,

what languages are you using ?
what is the weigth of your translation buddypress-xx_XX.mo file ?

[@gunnargabrielson Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

I’m only using the default english. I have not made any changes or modifications to anything related to language.

[@nickharambee Participant 12 years, 6 months ago]

I too am noticing this behaviour, specifically with apostrophes – I haven’t tested other special characters.

I am using latest versions (WordPress 3.4, Buddypress 1.5.6 and BuddyPress Group Email Subscription 3.1.2)