Fix: remove encoding from human name (#5373)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Fixed a bug where collection/array of primitive types members for union/intersection types would be ignored. [#5283](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/5283)
 - Fixed a when generating a plugin when only an operation is selected in the root node in the extension. [#5300](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/5300)
 - Fixed a bug where function descriptions in plugin manifest defaults to path summary instead of description[#5301](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/5301)
+- Fixed a bug where the description special characters are encoded. [5286](https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/issues/5286)
 
 ## [1.18.0] - 2024-09-05
 

src/Kiota.Builder/Plugins/PluginsGenerationService.cs

@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ public partial class PluginsGenerationService
     private PluginManifestDocument GetManifestDocument(string openApiDocumentPath)
     {
         var (runtimes, functions, conversationStarters) = GetRuntimesFunctionsAndConversationStartersFromTree(OAIDocument, Configuration.PluginAuthInformation, TreeNode, openApiDocumentPath);
-        var descriptionForHuman = OAIDocument.Info?.Description.CleanupXMLString() is string d && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(d) ? d : $"Description for {OAIDocument.Info?.Title.CleanupXMLString()}";
+        var descriptionForHuman = OAIDocument.Info?.Description is string d && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(d) ? d : $"Description for {OAIDocument.Info?.Title}";
         var manifestInfo = ExtractInfoFromDocument(OAIDocument.Info);
         var pluginManifestDocument = new PluginManifestDocument
         {

tests/Kiota.Builder.Tests/Plugins/PluginsGenerationServiceTests.cs

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ public sealed class PluginsGenerationServiceTests : IDisposable
 info:
   title: test
   version: 1.0
+  description: test description we've created
 servers:
   - url: http://localhost/
     description: There's no place like home
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ paths:
         Assert.True(resultingManifest.Document.Capabilities.ConversationStarters[1].Text.Length <= 50);// Conversation starters are limited to 50 characters
         Assert.Equal(expectedPluginName, resultingManifest.Document.Namespace);// namespace is cleaned up.
         Assert.Empty(resultingManifest.Problems);// no problems are expected with names
+        Assert.Equal("test description we've created", resultingManifest.Document.DescriptionForHuman);// description is pulled from info   
     }
     private const string ManifestFileName = "client-apiplugin.json";
     private const string OpenAIPluginFileName = "openai-plugins.json";