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.html() method returns html with UNICODE when Chinese words are passed

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var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var $ = cheerio.load('<title>文章抓取</title>');
console.log($('title').html());

<=0.15.0 output:

文章抓取

0.16.0-0.17.0 output:

&#x6587;&#x7AE0;&#x6293;&#x53D6;

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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fb55commented, Sep 22, 2014

Try passing decodeEntities: false.

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indatawetrustcommented, Mar 27, 2019

@fb55 thanks

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