Possible noob question: How to get punctuation & special characters to display properly

[jesse-blue]

Hello,
I've just recently started working on this site's search functionality and would ideally like it not to convert special characters and punctuation when displaying the search results.

Eg, [new line] becomes   and ' becomes ’

I'm wondering if there's a way to prevent this from happening?

You can see the static site where this search is implemented here: https://github.com/cedadev/ceda-div-hugo-hinode