Odd Characters / URL Encoding (&amp, , –) displaying in tags

  • Hey Guys! I have been working for a while on trouble shooting a strange issue and have not had any luck, so I figured that I would ask the experts:

    I am having an issue with odd characters showing up in the <TITLE> tags of my blog posts (such as: &amp, %20, –). It appears somehow to be converting the database field post_title to URL Encoding perhaps?

    Here is an example of my problem:

    <title>STEPHANIE & DANIEL – JACARANDA COUNTRY CLUB WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER</title>

    I would like WordPress to stop adding characters like: & or – to my <TITLE> tags

    I have been searching all over Google and the WordPress support forum and cannot even seem to find a reference to this problem ?? Maybe I just do not know how to refer to the issue so that I can find a solution.

    Here is all of the helpful information that I can provide:

    A link to an example on my blog (just view the source to see the title tags):

    https://www.seangriffinphoto.com/Blog/2013/11/19/stephanie-daniel-jacaranda-country-club-wedding-photographer/

    1) Regardless of the several WordPress themes I tried switching to, this issues still appears – even in TwentyFourteen. So I’m guessing it isn’t an issue with a bad PHP request for the Post_Title field

    2) I run WordPress on my owned shared hosting account at BlueHost

    3) My WordPress blog is currently running the UTF-8 charset

    4) When I looked at the database in PHPMyAdmin: The Post_Title fields look perfectly clean (no odd characters) ….Unless some strange encoding or characters could be hiding in the Post_Title Fields

    I have done my best to solve this problem on my own but have not had any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Sean

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