Encoding on some page titles broken when selecting a Parent Page

[bsanevans]

Issue

there are some traces of code when selecting a parent page if the parent page title has some space before closing bracket (   is visible ) or a dash symbol ( – is visible ). The issue occurs in Block Editor.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create pages with titles that include space before closing bracket ( A Space Before Closing Bracket ) and a dash symbol Dash symbol - using block editor.
2. Open another page in the editor and try to assign a parent page ( pages tab < Page attributes < Parent page ).

What happened instead

Browser / OS version

Tested in Firefox and Chrome.

Context / Source

Originally reported here: pbEMJv-lp-p2 - from a report here: 3497406-zd-woothemes

[liviopv]

I was able to reproduce that with a few different non-latin characters:

Screenshot: https://d.pr/i/aFy08K

Page: P6VVUQ-yx-p2

User-report: #3551115-zen

[github-actions]

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[bsanevans]

Commenting to keep this open. It'd be nice if we could remove encoding symbols everywhere, from a user perspective.