Some characters are not being displayed properly in the Activities Portlet, but are displayed as HTML characters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.0 DXP SP2
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Activities widget, Social Networking
• Labels: None

Description:
Some characters (e.g. apostrophes and quotation marks) are not being displayed properly in the Activities Portlet, but are displayed as HTML characters.

Steps to Reproduce:
In a clean Liferay DXP bundle:

1. Add an Activites portlet and a Blogs portlet to a page.
2. Add a Blog post.
3. Comment on the blog post and include an apostrophe and quotation marks in the comment.

Expected:
Apostrophe and quotation marks are correctly displayed in the Activities portlet.
Actual:
Apostrophe and quotation marks are not correctly displayed in the Activities portlet, but are displayed as HTML characters. (See attached screen shot.)

Additional Testing:
7.0.x: 8bb5dc084af40b1871dd66ca84a9bf3bc2e9bef1
Issue reproduced in branch.

Master: 975b0cb47849d0a2557a1ec1b14c2de56b9a8059
Issue fixed in master.