Colons in Jekyll titles or front matter

This blog is currently a Jeykll powered blog. One of my recent posts had a colon in the title. It was something like this:

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title: Jekyll Problems: Using a colon in a title
---

I tried wrapping the title entry with quotes but with no luck. The Jeykll parser would still hiccup.

Instead I’ve found a workaround by using the HTML entity for the colon symbol: :.

Here’s an example:

---
title: Jekyll Problems: Using a colon in a title
---

It makes the title less readable, but it did solve the issue for displaying the : symbol.

If you know of a better way in 2019, please ping me!