Bokeh 0.12.4 to 0.12.6 - UTF-8 charset support

Lately I’ve upgraded to Bokeh ver 0.12.6 from 0.12.4. I have previously used some UTF-8 codes in labels like ©, ®, .etc, and as far as I can see it’s no longer supported. Is there a fix or am I doing something wrong?

example:

citation = Label(x=90, y=70, x_units='screen', y_units='screen',
    text='©2017 xyz.com', text_font_style="bold")

in ver 12.4 produces: ©2017 xyz.com and in ver: 12.6: ©2017 xyz.com

test case script:

from bokeh.plotting import figure, output_file, show
from bokeh.models import Label

output_file("toolbar.html")

# create a new plot with the toolbar below
p = figure(plot_width=400, plot_height=400,
           title=None, toolbar_location="right",
           toolbar_sticky=False)

p.circle([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [2, 5, 8, 2, 7], size=10)

citation = Label(x=90, y=70, x_units='screen', y_units='screen',
                 text='©2017 xyz.com', render_mode='css', text_font_style="bold")
p.add_layout(citation)

show(p)

[mattpap]

What you are referring to is a HTML entity that can replace a Unicode character. This was previously accidentally allowed, because the implementation was sloppy, allowing for arbitrary HTML. What should work is using a unicode escape sequence '\u00a9 2017 xyz.com', but doesn’t for whatever reason (a bug).

[bryevdv]

works for me with 0.12.10dev2 so closing