Lotus Notes email client doesn't understand HTML numeric entities

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      In JIRA's HTML emails, all characters between 128 and 255 (that is, all non-ASCII) are escaped as numeric entities (eg. ä for ä). This is normally no problem - character entities were specified in HTML 4 over 10 years ago - except that at least one version of Lotus Notes (7.0.2) does not understand them, rendering the '&' as '?':

        1. templatefix.diff
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        2. summary-topleft.vm.JIRA_3.11
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        3. summary-topleft.vm
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        4. notes_brokenchars.png
          notes_brokenchars.png
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        5. Email.java
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        6. Email.java
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        7. DefaultTextRenderer.java
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        8. DefaultTextRenderer.java
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        9. charfix.diff
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        10. charfix_jira37.jar
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            Assignee:
            Mark Lassau (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Jeff Turner
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