Answers.Body: <p>The only way I can see this happening is if the field was originally a Rich Text Field, the content was entered, then the field type was swapped to a plain text field.</p>
  
  <p>If that's the case, the Rich Text Field would have encoded the entities and saved them into the database.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Found the answer. I just had to do <code>entry.title|raw</code></p>
  
  <p>I had tried this before, but silly me had done it to the wrong heading, so I never saw it change! :D</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have a plain text field in Craft and the content has an apostrophe. On the front end, the apostrophe gets turned into <code>&amp;#039;</code></p>
  
  <p>Not ideal! Thanks in advance..</p>
  
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Comments.Text: You maybe ran into [the same issue as this user](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/q/1632/125)?! Hope this helps.
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Comments.Text: I had tried what the answers in that link suggested, but I was just doing it on the wrong element. Oops! That solved it.
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Tags: <field><escaping>
Title: Plain text field - apostrophes are getting escaped
ThreadText: # Plain text field - apostrophes are getting escaped
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-09)
  
  I have a plain text field in Craft and the content has an apostrophe. On the front end, the apostrophe gets turned into `&#039;`
  
  Not ideal! Thanks in advance..
  
  **Tags:** field, escaping
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: You maybe ran into [the same issue as this user](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/q/1632/125)?! Hope this helps.  
  > **username_0**: I had tried what the answers in that link suggested, but I was just doing it on the wrong element. Oops! That solved it.  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-10-09. Score: 2
  
  The only way I can see this happening is if the field was originally a Rich Text Field, the content was entered, then the field type was swapped to a plain text field.
  
  If that's the case, the Rich Text Field would have encoded the entities and saved them into the database.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2014-10-09. Score: 2
  
  Found the answer. I just had to do `entry.title|raw`
  
  I had tried this before, but silly me had done it to the wrong heading, so I never saw it change! :D
  
  
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