title: CakePHP: How to use HTML entities in button titles using Form Helper
body: <p>I'd like to use a checkmark as the text for a button. The entity I want is <code>&amp;#x2713;</code> but when I put that in as the text for the button using the Form Helper, it always converts the leading ampersand into <code>&amp;amp;</code> so that the text shows but not the entity.</p>
  
  <p>Here's how I'm creating the button:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo $this-&gt;Form-&gt;button(
      '&amp;#x2713;', 
      array(
          'type' =&gt; 'submit', 
          'id' =&gt; $checklistItem['ChecklistItem']['id'], 
          'escape' =&gt; 'false'
      )
  );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the generated HTML looks like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;button type="submit" id="1"&gt;&amp;amp;#x2713;&lt;/button&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>which obviously doesn't render the entity. </p>
  
  <p>I've tried it by setting <code>'escape' =&gt; 'true'</code> but that has not effect at all.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>