title: Accented characters in Meteor
body: <p>I'm working on adding accented character compatibility to my Meteor app, and have run into several problems. While trying to troubleshoot something, I realized I can't even get the character codes to work when coming from helpers in JavaScript. When I run the following code:</p>
  
  <p>html:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;template name="home"&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;
  This is &amp;aacute; t&amp;eacute;st
  &lt;br&gt;
  {{testChar}}
  &lt;br&gt;
  &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/template&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>JavaScript:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Template.home.helpers({
  testChar: function(){
  //testArray = ["this is &amp;aacute; t&amp;eacute;st"];
  //return testArray[0];
  return "This is &amp;aacute; t&amp;eacute;st";
  }
  })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I see this:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>This is á tést 
    This is &amp;aacute t&amp;eacutest
    (the semicolons do show up on the webpage as well, I just removed them so that this text editor wouldn't display the same thing twice (which is exactly what I'm trying to get my website to do).</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help</p>