From 9c396544799dbdaf3434be6a0c63827dab535a7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julio Biason <julio.biason@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:29:31 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Reading the pango docs, I found the proper way to escape
 special chars

---
 mitterlib/ui/ui_pygtk.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mitterlib/ui/ui_pygtk.py b/mitterlib/ui/ui_pygtk.py
index 9cd0099..18d6789 100644
--- a/mitterlib/ui/ui_pygtk.py
+++ b/mitterlib/ui/ui_pygtk.py
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ import re
 import urllib2
 import webbrowser
 
+from cgi import escape as html_escape
+
 from mitterlib.ui.helpers.image_helpers import find_image
 from mitterlib import htmlize
-
 from mitterlib.constants import gpl_3, version
 from mitterlib.ui.helpers import timesince
 
@@ -578,9 +579,7 @@ class Interface(object):
         time = timesince.timesince(data.message_time)
 
         # unescape escaped entities that pango is not okay with
-        message = re.sub(r'&', r'&amp;', message)
-        message = re.sub(r'<', r'&lt;', message)
-        message = re.sub(r'>', r'&gt;', message)
+        message = html_escape(message)
 
         # highlight URLs
         mask = r'<span foreground="%s">\1</span>' % (