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by catmanjan 3444 days ago
If you're displaying user input you could just encode to their matching HTML entities...

{ or the human friendlier one &rcurb (?)

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that doesn't work because the HTML entity decoding happens before Angular does the scanning of the DOM for the brackets. So even if you use &rcurb; output from the server, Angular will still interpret the brackets "properly"

As to why this works this way, consider the following:

do you have to do HTML entity decoding when getting an input value from Javascript?