Here's a sample of my StackExchange Inbox this morning:
The apostrophe ' is being improperly/unnecessarily escaped to '
in the inbox.
It's also doing it to double quotes:
As well as ampersands:
No the title isn't bugged I was just making a joke
&
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