# HTML symbol

**URL:** https://forums.fusetools.com/t/html-symbol/5196
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [March 1, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/html-symbol/5196 "2016-03-01T13:50:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![Bertrand](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.fusetools.com/bertrand/32/1035_2.png) [@Bertrand](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Bertrand)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/html-symbol/5196/1 "2016-03-01T13:50:28Z")

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Hi there,

HTML symbols are not showing properly when they come from an observable, while it works fine when being directly in the text control:

```auto
<App Theme="Basic">
    <JavaScript>
        var Observable = require("FuseJS/Observable");
        var myValue = Observable("&#216;");

        module.exports = {
            myValue: myValue
       };
    </JavaScript>
    <StackPanel>
        <Text Value="{myValue}" />
        <Text Value="&#216;" />
    </StackPanel>
</App>

```

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### Author: ![Olle\_Fredriksson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e95f7d/32.png) [@Olle\_Fredriksson](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Olle_Fredriksson)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/html-symbol/5196/2 "2016-03-01T14:39:33Z")

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Hello!

We do not unescape HTML symbols in JavaScript since we treat the code in it as if it were inside `<![CDATA[` tags.

You can still use unicode symbols directly (just write `Ø`) or escape them with `\u`.

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### Author: ![Bertrand](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.fusetools.com/bertrand/32/1035_2.png) [@Bertrand](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Bertrand)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/html-symbol/5196/3 "2016-03-01T14:49:29Z")

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OK, cool, thanks Olle!