12.3 Variable Modifiers ↑
12.3.1 Email Apostrophes
Placing a single apostrophe ('
) as part of the variable modifiers string will cause any HTML entities representing an apostrophe to be converted back to a normal ASCII/UTF apostrophe character: '. This can be useful for generating HTML to use as e-mail content, since e-mail parsers seem to sometimes drop the HTML entities commonly used for apostrophes.
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