Github user michaelandrepearce commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis/pull/1325
On further testing we discovered that core escapes these, as such rather
than changing core behaviour which has been working as such has active users,
changed the AMQP behaviour, to match core.
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