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. charfix_jira37.jar
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          Jeff Turner
        2. charfix.diff
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          Jeff Turner
        3. DefaultTextRenderer.java
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          Christian Knecht
        4. DefaultTextRenderer.java
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          Christian Knecht
        5. Email.java
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          aschuma
        6. Email.java
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          aschuma
        7. notes_brokenchars.png
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          Jeff Turner
        8. summary-topleft.vm
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          Jeff Turner
        9. summary-topleft.vm.JIRA_3.11
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          Andreas Knecht
        10. templatefix.diff
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          Jeff Turner

            Assignee:
            Mark Lassau (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Jeff Turner
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