title: Stop WordPress from using html entities in <title></title>
body: <p>Google only cares about 65 characters of the <code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code> of any web page. It's a rare and precious space in terms of SEO and we want it to contain as many keywords as possible. However, WordPress keeps converting single character such as '-' into html entities '<code>&amp;#8211;</code>' that is unwanted and lengthy, unnecessarily taking up precious space in <code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>See <a href="http://www.avivaly.com/product/silk-wedding-dress-the-princess-bride/" rel="nofollow">this page</a> for example.</p>
  
  <p>How do I stop WordPress doing the entities conversion in <code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code>?</p>