title: Escaping <br />
body: <p>I'm trying to escape <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> and the likes in my Magento meta description.</p>
  
  <p>So I've come up with this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$characters = array("&lt;br /&gt;", "&lt;br&gt;", "&lt;br/&gt;");
  $badDesc = htmlspecialchars($this-&gt;getDescription());
  $goodDesc = preg_replace($characters, ' ', $badDesc);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the only characters thats escaped is "br /", but remaining is the "&lt; >"</p>
  
  <p>What do?</p>