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snippet to fix Hugo post title rendering

November 19, 2025

My posts for a while had the really annoying issue of rendering titles incorrectly for some unknown reason.

Apparently Goldmark, a Markdown parser that is used in Hugo, automatically replaces characters like ' (HTML code ’) with their HTML code counterparts:

[markup.goldmark.extensions.typographer]
    apostrophe = '&rsquo;'
    disable = false
    ellipsis = '&hellip;'
    emDash = '&mdash;'
    enDash = '&ndash;'
    leftAngleQuote = '&laquo;'
    leftDoubleQuote = '&ldquo;'
    leftSingleQuote = '&lsquo;'
    rightAngleQuote = '&raquo;'
    rightDoubleQuote = '&rdquo;'
    rightSingleQuote = '&rsquo;'

As seen in this snippet from their configuration, there's a flag to turn this off or off. I just added this flag to my hugo.toml file

[markup.goldmark.extensions.typographer]
    disable = true

and now we have the correctly rendered version! Yay!

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