Title: Settings > Formatting fields display HTML special characters wrong
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Settings > Formatting fields display HTML special characters wrong

 *  Resolved [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-formatting-fields-display-html-special-characters-wrong/)
 * When editing the formatting of for example the Single Location page and typing“&
   nbsp;” (without the space) for a non-breaking space, it gets saved in the database
   correctly, but when viewing the page again, it is shown in the editor as a regular
   space. Thus if you edit a different part of the setting field and save it, it
   is now saved into db as a regular space.
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 *  Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * (@netweblogic)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-formatting-fields-display-html-special-characters-wrong/#post-3242191)
 * not sure there’s much we can do about that… if we try to convert the & then it’ll
   convert everything including the html tags.
 *  Thread Starter [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-formatting-fields-display-html-special-characters-wrong/#post-3242192)
 * Depending on how the conversion is currently done, one way is to double-encode
   every “& nbsp;” (without the space) before the display. Perhaps extend it to 
   all “& something;” (without the space) special chars.
 * Something like `$text = preg_replace( '_&([A-Za-z0-9#]+;)_', '& amp;$1', $text);`(
   without the space after “&”) should do the trick.
 *  Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * (@netweblogic)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-formatting-fields-display-html-special-characters-wrong/#post-3242202)
 * could look into that in the future but there’s other implications with that. 
   For now I suggest you hook into the wp filter option_dbem…. for the options you
   need this on and apply this to the options you want to add this to.
 * if we add this for “& amp;” then the next request will be for some other entity
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Daedalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daedalon/)
 * (@daedalon)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/settings-formatting-fields-display-html-special-characters-wrong/#post-3242203)
 * > if we add this for “& amp;” then the next request will be for some other entity
   > 🙂
 * For this I suggested doing it for all entities at once with the _preg\_replace_
   above. Requires testing, though.
 * Will look into that filter, thanks.

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