[SOLVED] Prestashop special characters issue

[SzymonBl]

Hello, 
I've recently come across an issue with special characteras, such as &, or ', display as their html version (not sure how it's called).

This only happens with category page titles, as you can see below
 - title
 - category list

I've searched a bit but I can't find any solution. Does anyone know what could that be caused by?

PHP 8.0
Presta 8.2
Theme Hummingbird

Edited January 7 by SzymonBl (see edit history)

[pallavigodse]

The issue might be related to how your theme (Hummingbird) handles category page titles.

Look for the below terms in your theme files:

category.tpl

or similar template files in your theme folder.

Check for the

{$category.name}

or similar variable used to display the title.

If the title is being passed through a function like:

htmlspecialchars()

or

escape('html')

it could be causing double encoding.

Fix: Ensure it's only escaped once by removing unnecessary encoding functions. Use {strip} or ensure proper escaping like {$category.name nofilter}.

[SzymonBl]

Okay adding nofilter to variable fixed it, but only after I changed block name

{block name='product_list_header1'}

      <h1 id="js-product-list-header" class="h2 mb-4">{$listing.label nofilter}</h1>

    {/block}

It now looks like this, for some reason everything is okay