Actually, probably more of a @Ben thing. But if I had to guess, I’d guess that such things are being escaped intentionally, either by us or by our Markdown parsing library, because it’s more likely someone would write something like, “Beans & rice”, and would want the ampersand to display properly as text. After all, it’s a text input, not a code-editor.
You might have better luck figuring out the keyboard shortcut to type the character you want, and doing it that way. On a Mac, it’s Shift-Opt-[hyphen].
Couldn’t have imagined, it would be that easy Just entering the most obscure Symbols without even knowing their html-syntax.
On Windows it’s Strg Alt -.
My problem is solved. Page copy behaves a little different from album copy, but that doesn’t bother me.