Symbols don't render correctly in links

[sophiabrandt]

Thanks for creating this theme.

In my blog I have several links where the link text contains an ampersand.

Example:

Dungeons & Dragons

The theme renders them like so (it shows & instead of &):

Dungeons & Dragons

Is there a way to opt out of HTML escaping for links?
Just putting a \ before the & does not seem to work.

I know that Hugo has a function called HtmlUnescape, but as I'm using plain markdown, I am unsure on how to incorporate that function.

This post is the most relevant on the Hugo forums that I could find, but it seems to address a different issue:
https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/ampersand-character-in-markdown-links/25269

Any tips are appreciated.

[dataCobra]

Hello @sophiabrandt,

Thank you for reporting this problem.

I'll look into this and answer you when I solved it.

Regards,
Ben

[dataCobra]

I've found a solution to this problem and created a fix for that.

If you use the repository to build your website you only need to pull the changes.

I'll now create a release file. Might take a few minutes before it shows up in the releases.

[dataCobra]

The new release is now also finally available.

I hope this fixes your problem.

Please give me feedback if the fix worked or not.

Regards,
Ben

[sophiabrandt]

@dataCobra works splendidly, thank you very much! 👍