References containing angle brackets improperly escape the angle bracket with a backslash \ before escaping them with the HTML escape character >

[loucadufault]

This came up when using this plugin alongside the plugin: https://github.com/Gerrit0/typedoc-plugin-missing-exports, which by default creates a module named <internal>. This module seems to be improperly escaped when referenced elsewhere in the typedoc, as:

### Modules

- [<internal\>](index._internal_.md)

which renders as:

• <internal&gt;

Note that the escaping is somehow only incorrect for the closing angle bracket.

I am not sure whether this is an issue with this plugin, but I confirmed that when not using the plugin, the reference to the module is properly escaped (using the native HTML renderer).

I tried looking through the source, as far as I can tell there is the escapeChars() function that probably runs on the module name to create the reference name, but I am not sure what is then converting that to the HTML escape characters < and >.

[tgreyuk]

OK thanks - this was actually being escaped by Handlebars. Please try with typedoc-plugin-markdown@3.17.1 which contains a fix.

[loucadufault]

Thanks for the quick fix! Can confirm this is resolved in 3.17.0.