Data with apostrophe, quotes etc. blocking the setList() to display data

[mayeenulislam]

How to reproduce

• Input data into a text field in repeater like: Someone's name (the data has single quote/apostrophe)
• Store the data into database
• When building the data for setList() pass the raw data from db
• The json_encode()-ed data won't fill the repeater fields with data

Expected Bahivour

The data should populate the repeaters as the array contains.

Taken measure

Seeing the anomaly, while building the data, we imposed:
htmlspecialchars($value['username'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

Now the data is displaying from the array. But, the HTML special characters are there:
Someone's Name

💯 NEED A FIX FOR QUOTED DATA ON UPCOMING RELEASE

Temporary measure

We've taken the method from this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1395954/1743124

And within the foreach loop on line 106, we've unEscaped the data before populating the fields:

foreach(collection, function (val, key, coll) {
	val = decodeEntities(val); // <-------- unEscaping the string
	if(callback(val, key, coll)) {
	      filtered[key] = val;
	}
});