Why is “®” being rendered as “®” without the bounding semicolon

Question

I\'ve been running into a problem that was revealed through our Google adwords-driven marketing campaign. One of the standard parameters used is \"region\". When a user se

Answer 1

It seems to me that what you have received from google is not an actual URL but a variable which refers to a url (query-string). So, thats why it's being parsed as registration mark when rendered.

I would say, you owe to url-encode it and decode it whenever processing it. Like any other variable containing special entities.