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Why do the less than and greater than symbols get changed by WordPress?

February 22, 20232 Views

On my WordPress blog I am using the wp-sytax plugin to format a code snippet.

In the HTML view I have the following code:

<pre lang="c">
#include<stdio.h>
</pre>

But in the regular view it shows:

#include&lt;stdio.h&gt;

How can i make #include<stdio.h> appear as I typed it?

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2 comments

Anonymous says:

February 22, 2023 at 8:28 am
Add escaped="true", to tell the engine that the code shouldn’t be converted to entities:
```
<pre lang="c" escaped="true">
#include<stdio.h>
</pre>
```
(See example 4 of the Documentation)
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Anonymous says:

February 22, 2023 at 8:29 am
You need to modify the plugin slightly and escape the characters as described in this post.
```
//$geshi = new GeSHi($code, $language);
$geshi = new GeSHi(htmlspecialchars_decode($code), $language);
```
The escaping above is done using htmlspecialchars_decode.
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