“&” character is converted in Gutenberg

Hey @tathros!

Thanks for using the plugin and thanks for the question. I have not officially tested and qualified the plugin to work with Gutenberg yet. However, please try the following:

Have a look at https://gehrcke.de/wp-geshi-highlight-demo/ and specifically at these two examples called:

– “HTML, without decoding HTML entities”
– “HTML, like above, but with decoding HTML entities”

These two examples illustrate a technique based on the escaped=”true” option. That option allows you to have HTML entities such as > in your pre block content which after all displays correctly to your users. Example:

<pre lang="xxx" escaped="true">
< >
</pre> 

This will correctly display the < and the > characters. If you write “&” (which is the HTML entity for “ampersand”) it will decode to &.

That is, I think if you just leave the “&” as-is, and add the escaped=true option to your pre block then the content will display correctly.

Let me know how it goes.

Jan-Philip

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Thanks for the quick reply and I am glad that things worked already.

I am still trying to edit my comment above to show the right thing (the WordPress forum messes with the code content in a not really predictable way, and I couldn’t find documentation… simple Markdown would be so much better).