Entity conversion glitch?

[Waylan Limberg]

I would say this is a minor bug, and an interesting edge case as well.
The cause is the semi-colon following the `T`. `&T;` looks like an
html entity. If you remove the semicolon, the `&` is properly
converted to `&`.

In python-markdown, you can escape the `&` and you will get the expected output:

    under a license from AT\&T; however, others were based on BSD instead.

becomes:

    <p>under a license from AT&amp;T; however, others were based on BSD instead.
    </p>

Unfortunately, this does not seem to work in the other implementations.

On Feb 3, 2008 12:22 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,

>

> Given the following text:

>

> under a license from AT&T; however, others were based on BSD instead.

>

> Daring Fireball's Markdown Dingus produces:

>

> <p>under a license from AT&T; however, others were based on BSD

> instead.</p>

>

> Note how the '&' is not escaped to '&amp;'.

>

> Bug? Feature?

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> Kind regards,

>

> PA.

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