Comment 6 for bug 684922

I have experienced a similar issue and my workaround is below. I'm not proposing this as a patch as I have not tested this fully, but it resolves the issue for me.

Add an extra line to the function insertIssue in class.issue.php as below.

private function insertIssue($prj_id, $usr_id, $data)
    {

  // decode html-encoded entities
  $data['description'] = html_entity_decode($data['description']);