html entities like   are not highlighted in .cshtml Razor files but work fine in regular .html files

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[regression] [worked-in:2019]
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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 3/1/2022, 09:41 PM:

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Original Solutions

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[NTaylorMullen]

We should look at this from the Razor compiler perspective (aka does it detect them at all). Lets see if it does. If it does not, file an issue on razor-compiler.

[ryanbrandenburg]

It seems the RazorCompiler does not detect this (or at least does not encode it). It gets stored as a MarkupTextLiteral along with any other text floating around near it.

[ryanbrandenburg]

Filed #7303 against the dotnet/razor-compiler.