Glimmer converts html entities to equivalent chars during AST generation.

[siva-sundar]

Html entities like '×', '<', '>' are converted to ×, <, > during AST generation. This leads to a problem while during hbs transformations.

Here is the reproduction demo.

[Turbo87]

@siva-sundar the glimmer parser creates an abstract syntax tree, not a concrete syntax tree (see https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/02/16/abstract-vs-concrete-syntax-trees/), so this is somewhat intended.

you will most likely have to convert those entities back to their escaped values when you pretty print the HBS code

[siva-sundar]

@Turbo87 Thanks

[GavinJoyce]

@siva-sundar did you happen to solve this by doing the replacement after printing? If so, perhaps you could point out where that code lives? We'd like to do this in the ember-angle-brackets-codemod too: https://github.com/rajasegar/ember-angle-brackets-codemod/issues/48