Mark entity safe and reinstall escape -- make title display right Change to explicitly mark the string entity — as safe and reinstate escaping of doctitle. If this worked in the past maybe auto-escaping wasn't turned on. If it is in the newer versions of sphinx's jinja |safe is needed now (and |e isn't, but it doesn't seem to cause double escaping so....).

try:
    # Python 3+.
    from xmlrpc import client, server
    server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
except (ImportError, AttributeError):
    # Python 2.
    import xmlrpclib as client  # noqa: F401
    import SimpleXMLRPCServer as server