Markdown preview pane failing to interpret HTML entities

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I'm starting to edit a lot of markdown documents, and I'm recommending Visual Studio as a markdown editor/previewer to the people who do the writing. One writer reports that the preview pane doesn't interpret HTML entities. If he writes "find the &lt;div&gt; tag" the preview pane displays "find the &lt;div&gt; tag" instead of "find the <div> tag."

I told him that he probably clicked the wrong icon and opened a split editing pane instead of a preview pane. He says he didn't do that, and sent me a screen shot that proves he didn't.

I'm baffled. I can't reproduce this. Does anyone know what Visual Studio is doing, and how we can fix it?

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