[HOLD][$1000] ‘&nbsp’; appears in the notification for IOU

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Action Performed:

1. Open chrome staging dot with User A
2. Go to any chat with user B. Login with User B on android app.
3. From user’s A account, request money to user B in a currency other than USD.
4. Result: You’ll see that in the notification it’s still showing &nbsp.

Expected Result:

‘&nbsp’; should not appear in the notification

Actual Result:

‘&nbsp’; appears in the notification

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.2.80-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos:

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Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @avi-shek-jha
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1678111778601099

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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @strepanier03 (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[strepanier03]

I'm able to recreate this but only using a non-USD currency, so I think that's important and comes from us putting a different character aside from $ in the notification text.

It is very similar to another GH when we use foreign characters in the request money reason.

[strepanier03]

This PR looks like it was meant to fix this - #15578.

[strepanier03]

Putting this on hold and following along with #15340 and will test after merge, then either move forward or close.

[strepanier03]

#15665 - Closed a different GH for IOU requests. Will see if this is related and action.

[strepanier03]

Will have to get to this next week, focused on SVB stuff today.