# HTML entities don’t work in chat

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-entities-don-t-work-in-chat/376865>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** chat, fixed\
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-entities-don-t-work-in-chat/376865 "2025-08-01T14:00:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-entities-don-t-work-in-chat/376865/5 "2025-08-28T06:43:27Z")

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I’m never sure, but I did `./launcher bootstrap web_only && ./launcher destroy web_only && ./launcher start web_only` so I would guess… Yes, I had 🤷‍♂️

Anyway. I’m middle of ugrading Ubuntu from 22.04 to 24.04 so let’s see if something changes.

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