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Here's a sample of my StackExchange Inbox this morning:

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The apostrophe ' is being improperly/unnecessarily escaped to ' in the inbox.

It's also doing it to double quotes:

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As well as ampersands:

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No the title isn't bugged I was just making a joke

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    Expect to revert a lot of helpful edits to your title. In fact, I jumped in here specifically to fix it. Fortunately, I actually read your question. – ale May 8 '12 at 13:21
  • Been seeing this today as well. I'd already posted a similar bug roots around – Manishearth May 8 '12 at 13:22
  • Aah meta.stackexchange.com/questions/128439/… Not a dupe, though – Manishearth May 8 '12 at 13:23
  • Oh. I've been meaning to submit this for a while... stupid short-term memory loss. – Ry- May 8 '12 at 13:29
  • Yeah, I noticed this too! – CoffeeRain May 8 '12 at 13:45
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    +2 for making me think. -1 for doing it in the morning! – Andrew Barber May 8 '12 at 13:48
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    It appears you are channeling the spirit of Tim Stone. See You got your double encoded space in my tooltip. Oh those SE devs, will they ever learn =P – Josh Darnell May 9 '12 at 13:34
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    Interesting that the "hot questions" tab shows them correctly but the inbox is double-escaped. – Kevin May 9 '12 at 14:40
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    I also saw an & in my inbox with a notification of some messages for me in the E&R Moderator Chatroom, so it's not just this character... – Kevin Vermeer May 9 '12 at 16:47
  • @KevinVermeer that's odd, I see normal ampersands in my inbox, not in the title of chat rooms though – Ben Brocka May 9 '12 at 17:00
  • @BenBrocka - I'll do some "testing" & see if it's working now. <-- What do you see there? – Kevin Vermeer May 9 '12 at 17:08
  • @KevinVermeer it's fixed now – Ben Brocka May 9 '12 at 18:57
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This only relates to inbox items from chat, but yes: it was a bit dodgy for about 8 hours. This was noticed and fixed about 12 hours ago, so you should be fine now. It was entirely my fault; was trying to tidy up how markdown appeared, but it got a bit over-excited and over-encoded things. Always better than the alternative, of course.

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It's also happening in the inbox at http://stackexchange.com/users/[User ID]?tab=inbox.

There, I was able to go back a couple days and find that older messages do not suffer from this problem:

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The double quotes on "A" sizes were shown correctly on 05/07 at 14:24, but Teachers&#39; Lounge was messed up on 05/07 at 18:23, less than 4 hours later.

Hopefully that helps you narrow down to the commit that broke the encoding.

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