Hi monks, I am developing a site in perl/cgi for an e-publishing company where they use a lot of special characters. I get their error reports in input box and store it in xml. But while retrieving it all the special characters change into entities it seems html parses them and i am unable to generate the special characters on page as it is.

Example: 
XML:
<error>Missed &reg; in line 2</error>
<error>Missed <h1> tag in line 8</error>

HTML:
<textarea>Missed &reg; in line 2,Missed <h1> tag in line 8 </textarea>

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I want the same the text as &reg; but not as a symbol ® inside the textarea but it changes into its appropriate entity.

SInce it ia an epublishing company they use hundreds of special characters and its very hard to include escape sequences for each of them

Any help on this! I am searching on google din get any stuff is there any tag or header declaration to show those entities as raw text but not symbols on the page even i am searching pls help me monks

In reply to Special characters in perl/cgi by sharief

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