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+/* We're explicitly defining the list of entities we want to escape.
+nbsp is an HTML entity, but we don't want to escape all space characters in a string, hence its omission in this map.
+
+*/
+var escapeChars = {
+ '¢' : 'cent',
+ '£' : 'pound',
+ '¥' : 'yen',
+ '€': 'euro',
+ '©' :'copy',
+ '®' : 'reg',
+ '<' : 'lt',
+ '>' : 'gt',
+ '"' : 'quot',
+ '&' : 'amp',
+ "'" : '#39'
+};
+
+module.exports = escapeChars;