HTML entities are not being decoded in link previews when shown to sender

[brad2014]

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Overall summary

Link previews containing HTML entities such as ‘ are not being decoded in the preview description.

Seems like it could be related to (or a possible regression of) #5397, closed in 2021.

Steps to reproduce

In a chat, paste the URL https://www.catalannews.com/culture/item/sant-joan-the-catalan-fire-festival-ignites-on-the-23rd-of-june and notice that the preview looks like the screenshot below:

Expected result

The HTML entities in the description should be decoded, so as to appear thus:

Sant Joan, or ‘nit de foc’ (‘night of fire’ in Catalan) will ignite

Actual result

The description of the preview contains:

Sant Joan, or ‘nit de foc’ (‘night of fire’ in Catalan) will ignite

Screenshots

Signal version

7.12.0 (Apple Silicon)

Operating system

MacOS 14.5 (Sonoma)

Version of Signal on your phone

7.9.5

Link to debug log

No response

[brad2014]

May be related to Issue #6193, which refers to received notifications (as opposed to link previews at the sender).

May be related to Issue #5397, which was closed in 2021.

[indutny-signal]

I just went and checked the source for that page and it looks like the website description is incorrectly double-escaped:

Sant Joan, or ‘nit de foc’ (‘night of fire’ in Catalan)

Sorry, but this appears to be an issue on that website's end!