Formatting function wp_specialchars_decode doesn't work

[italooko]

This in functions.php doesn't work, the string returns non-decoded quotes like &#8220, for example.

<?php
function get_title(){
   $title = wp_specialchars_decode(get_the_title(), ENT_QUOTES);
   $caracteres = strlen($title);
   $max = 73;
if ($caracteres <= $max){
    return $title;
}
else {
    $title = substr($title, 0, $max);
    $title = $title.'...';
    return $title;      }
}

[dd32]

Hi @italooko and welcome to Trac.

wp_specialchars_decode() working as described is correct.

​As the documentation reads:

Converts a number of HTML entities into their special characters.
Specifically deals with: &, <, >, ", and ‘.

If you want the behaviour of the PHP function html_entity_decode() call it directly.