<p>Well the insert special characters menu works for me from menu or keybinding.</p>
<p>Despite its name, and the example given in its plugin manager description, it does not automatically replace HTML chars like < > & ; etc probably because if it did then it would be kind of hard to type HTML and XML :)</p>
<p>Also note that automatic replacement only happens in those filetypes.</p>

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