Having tested this with several configurations on both jboss and glassfish, I'm reasonably sure this is either a 1.2RI bug or a facelets bug. Since it doesn't appear in JSP pages, and given the problems facelets has had with HTML entities before, I'm inclined to blame facelets. I guess I'll be sticking with JSP, as I'm growing increasingly disillusioned with facelets. Either way, not a Seam issue, but something that might bite some users nonetheless. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3973035#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...