Module replaces "&" with "&"

I am getting the following behaviour with 'auto_entitylabel' 7.x-1.x-dev from 2017-Aug-03 in combination with 'token' 7.x-1.x-dev from 2022-Jan-12.

Setup:

Node title is constructed from two text fields (First name and Last name).

In Token browser, I get two token candidates for this:

[node:original:field_name_first_txt] [node:original:field_name_last_txt] and
[node:field_name_last_txt], [node:field_name_first_txt]

I do not know what the difference of these two variants is.
I do not get token variants with dashes (-) instead of underscores (_).

Result:

With both token variants, as well O'Toole as O’Toole is encoded properly in node title.

This works only with the latest development releases (mentioned above). With the recommended releases, O'Brien was garbled to O'Brien, Ra'ad became Ra'ad.

I believe this issue is fixed in the latest dev releases. Can anyone confirm this, and if it is fixed, could we get a new recommended release?

Thank you!

Drupal 7 is end of life → and no longer supported.
Closing the issue as outdated.