Title: character codes appearing instead of the actual characters
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# character codes appearing instead of the actual characters

 *  Resolved [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-other-code/)
 * Not sure why this is happening but I’m getting lots of character codes appearing
   where the actual characters should be appearing so my syntaxhighlighted code 
   is appearing like this:
 * EDIT: Actually tricky to explain as when I add the wrong code here it actually
   shows up perfectly okay!
 * Here’s a page where the code is getting all confused:
 * [http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/useful-wordpress-snippets/](http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/useful-wordpress-snippets/)

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 *  [jamesisin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesisin/)
 * (@jamesisin)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-other-code/#post-2221180)
 * Agreed. This is a huge problem. I would like to use high-lighters to lay out 
   code in boxes but every time I save a draft all of the special characters get
   converted and so I have to paste in each section of code each time I save. A 
   terrible hassle to have to paste in multiple code blocks because I notice I spelled
   the word typpe.
 *  Thread Starter [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-other-code/#post-2221221)
 * Figured out the problem was actually in the theme that I was using. It was stripping
   out some code – not entirely sure what was happening but I got rid of the code
   that was causing the issue and all appears well once again.

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 * Last reply from: [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/and-other-code/#post-2221221)
 * Status: resolved