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Magento: How to fix double ampersand "&" in product attributes in version 1.6

Posted by Stuart Forster on 8th February 2012

Tagged: howto, magento ampersand, 1.6, attributes, product

Magento v1.6 seems to have an annoying bug where by it double escapes the ampersand in product attributes.

If you have, for example, 'Love, Luck & Happiness' as a value of an attribute the following will occur:

'Love, Luck & Happiness' becomes 'Love, Luck &amp; Happiness'.
This then gets double escaped to become:
'Love, Luck &amp;amp; Happiness'

Here's how to temporarily fix that.