From 65c4b4e41a202a59214719f400e07580deb44b8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Rose <est.michael@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:38:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Replace `|` with HTML entity when used as title separator

ref: #760, #1506
---
 CHANGELOG.md       | 1 +
 _includes/seo.html | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8bf36e3..1525147 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 * Remove misleading underline hover state on feature row items.
 * Properly escape quotes in `site.social.name` and `site.name`. [#1485](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/1485)
 * Fix typo in upgrading documentation. [#1487](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/1487)
+* Replace `|` with HTML entity when used as title separator. [#760](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/issues/760)
 
 ## [4.9.0](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/releases/tag/4.9.0)
 
diff --git a/_includes/seo.html b/_includes/seo.html
index fa2be86..2ac0b64 100644
--- a/_includes/seo.html
+++ b/_includes/seo.html
@@ -4,8 +4,12 @@
 {%- endif -%}
 {%- assign seo_url = seo_url | default: site.github.url -%}
 
+{% if site.title_separator %}
+  {% assign title_separator = site.title_separator | default: '-' | replace: '|', '&#124;' %}
+{% endif %}
+
 {%- if page.title -%}
-  {%- assign seo_title = page.title | append: " " | append: site.title_separator | append: " " | append: site.title -%}
+  {%- assign seo_title = page.title | append: " " | append: title_separator | append: " " | append: site.title -%}
 {%- endif -%}
 
 {%- if seo_title -%}
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@
   {%- assign og_type = "website" -%}
 {%- endif -%}
 
-<title>{{ seo_title | default: site.title }}{% if paginator %}{% unless paginator.page == 1 %} {{ site.title_separator }} {{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].page | default: "Page" }} {{ paginator.page }}{% endunless %}{% endif %}</title>
+<title>{{ seo_title | default: site.title }}{% if paginator %}{% unless paginator.page == 1 %} {{ title_separator }} {{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].page | default: "Page" }} {{ paginator.page }}{% endunless %}{% endif %}</title>
 <meta name="description" content="{{ seo_description }}">
 
 {% if author.name %}
-- 
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