Using character entities, e.g. & to give an &, works on submitting the comme...

ralph on April 17, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.yc...

Using character entities, e.g. & to give an &, works on submitting the comment, but editing the comment populates the form's area with an unescaped ampersand causing corruption on submitting the form. Encoding and decoding needs to be symmetrical.

Cheers, Ralph.