& Turns into & in metadata

I have a simple problem regarding &amp. I decided to upload a simple csv file just to insert meta title and meta description.

It uploaded sucessfully but when i use the view source i can see this &

<head>
<meta charset = "utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title> Jack &amp; Jill </title>
</head>

My question is how do i change & into & ?

I tried manually inputting Jack & Jill. But still when i check the view souce. It still transforms into a &

Hope you can help me.

Jon Skeet
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My question is how do i change &amp; into & ?

I wouldn't, if I were you. &amp; is just the HTML-encoded (and XML-encoded) form of &. The browser will display it as &.

I don't know offhand whether an & followed by a space is even valid in strict XML (I know this is HTML, not XML) but it's reasonable to always escape it, so that you don't need to worry about situations like:

I love Jack&Jill; they're great

... where Jill would be seen as an entity reference without any escaping.

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