{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734","id":135397150,"number":2734,"title":"HTML Symbols not correctly parsed in 1.16? TexMath / HTML issue!?","user":{"login":"Tinkerer-","id":5672983,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5672983?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-","html_url":"https://github.com/Tinkerer-","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Tinkerer-/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2016-02-22T11:59:48Z","updated_at":"2016-02-22T18:03:16Z","closed_at":"2016-02-22T18:00:18Z","body":"Since I've upgraded to pandoc 1.16 I have an issue with HTML characters. For example, `&euml` should become &euml; but instead pandoc decides to interpret it, and make it  &amp;euml; (`&amp;$euml;`).\r\n\r\nExample: \r\n\r\n```\r\nC:\\Users\\test>cat test.txt\r\nThis is a &euml; test\r\nC:\\Users\\test>pandoc test.txt\r\n<p>This is a &amp;euml; test</p>\r\n``` \r\n\r\nFrom previous pandoc versions I would have expected the output to have been:\r\n\r\n```\r\n<p>This is a &euml; test</p>\r\n``` \r\n\r\nI'm using pandoc 1.16.0.2, built by cabal.\r\n\r\n**Edit:** when I'm using the Windows installed pandoc (also 1.16.0.2), pandoc behaves as expected!\r\n\r\n**Edit2:** The difference between my Windows intalled pandoc (\"good\") and the cabal version (\"bad\"), as indicated by a diff of the version output is that the Windows installed version uses texmath 0.8.4.1, where the version compiled by Cabal uses texmath 0.8.4.2"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/issues/comments/187297003","html_url":"https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734#issuecomment-187297003","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734","id":187297003,"user":{"login":"jgm","id":3044,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3044?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm","html_url":"https://github.com/jgm","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jgm/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-02-22T18:03:16Z","updated_at":"2016-02-22T18:03:16Z","body":"PS.  If you use cabal to install pandoc, the fix should be\nas simple as:\n\n    cabal install tagsoup-0.13.8 pandoc --force --reinstall\n\n+++ Tinkerer- [Feb 22 16 03:59 ]:\n>   Since I've upgraded to pandoc 1.16 I have an issue with HTML\n>   characters. For example, &euml should become ë but instead pandoc\n>   decides to interpret it, and make it &amp;$euml;.\n>\n>   Example:\n>C:\\Users\\test>cat test.txt\n>This is a &euml; test\n>C:\\Users\\test>pandoc test.txt\n><p>This is a &amp;euml; test</p>\n>\n>   From previous pandoc versions I would have expected the output to have\n>   been:\n><p>This is a &euml; test</p>\n>\n>   I'm using pandoc 1.16.0.2, built by cabal.\n>\n>   —\n>   Reply to this email directly or [1]view it on GitHub.\n>\n>References\n>\n>   1. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2734\n"}}