APEX

Hi all,

I have a text field which may contain special characters, like ™. In my database, it's stored as the actual character. I have a function which renders ASCII text to HTML, escaping all of the needed values. I find, however, that the text field automatically escape some (but not all) of the values, so some end up escaped twice.

1) Is there a way to prevent the text field from escaping characters? or
2) Is there a list of all of the characters it escapes?

I ask, because including the ™ in my text field causes the HTML to not render properly, so I need to manually escape it. (The page ends with a visible "</htm".)