# "harr" HTML entity not rendered properly

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131 "2019-08-29T15:22:15Z")
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### Author: ![jmsachs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jmsachs/32/107682_2.png) [@jmsachs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmsachs)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131/1 "2019-08-29T15:22:15Z")

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It looks like `&harr;` is rendered as `:left_right_arrow:` for some reason. Why? This is inconsistent and should be considered a bug.

a ← b

a → b

a ↔ b

```plaintext
a &larr; b

a &rarr; b

a &harr; b

```

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### Author: ![Tracey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tracey/32/149153_2.png) [@Tracey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tracey)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131/2 "2019-08-29T15:35:29Z")

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a ↔ b

I personally don’t see the problem with it. This HTML version simply shows material equivalence… for example Both A & B are true / false etc…Or are you saying you prefer to see this version?  
 ![a%20-%20b](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/c/8c0fb7e9a25fe5bfaa8dca0e835df631061583ba.png)

OK get what you mean!! 😆 impossible to get the original version up!!  
here goes .. ![a%20-%20b](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/c/8c0fb7e9a25fe5bfaa8dca0e835df631061583ba.png) success?

a ⇔ b there is always this option  
 ![a-b](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2e3723947b727273107c9408549209edec6f6882.png)

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### Author: ![jmsachs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jmsachs/32/107682_2.png) [@jmsachs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmsachs)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131/3 "2019-08-29T15:56:48Z")

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Yeah! If I want that arrow, I’ll type `:left_right_arrow:` to get ↔ – but the HTML entity I used got substituted automatically.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131/4 "2019-08-30T00:13:28Z")

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Oh this is a @j.jaffeux thing. I agree that one should not be replaced.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131/5 "2019-08-30T05:07:43Z")

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Sure, this is fixed:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e9cf0de5883930288ba45a7fa0e06d2411bb4c97](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e9cf0de5883930288ba45a7fa0e06d2411bb4c97)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/harr-html-entity-not-rendered-properly/127131/7 "2019-09-02T08:00:02Z")

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