Hello, George,

The link to the public item is below:

https://feedback.telerik.com/kendo-jquery-ui/1454266-category-field-doesn-t-handle-encoded-characters

Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik

Hello, George,

Would you mind if I convert this thread to a public Feedback item so others can upvote it?

The more popularity an item gets, the sooner it gets pushed forward for implementation because of the higher impact it has.

Let me know if you would like me to do that.

Kind Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik

Hello, George,

For the remote binding scenario, you can use either option:

• use the data source schema model field parse function to process that particular field 

https://dojo.telerik.com/EnOweVuL/2

           schema:{
                model: {
                  fields:{
                    month: { parse: decodeEntities } // where month is the categoryField
                  }
                }
              }

• use the dataSource requestEnd event to loop through all of the data and decode each field at that point 

https://dojo.telerik.com/@bubblemaster/ikELUBOG

            requestEnd: function(e){
                var data = e.response;
                for(var i=0; i< data.length; i++){
                	data[i].month = decodeEntities(data[i].month);
                }
                return data;
              }

Kind Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik

Hello, George,

To overcome this issue, you can decode the categories before passing them to the chart:

	function decodeEntities(input) {
          return $("<div>").html(input).text();
        }
      
      	var categories = ["Jan", "Feb&#246;", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun"].map(decodeEntities);

https://dojo.telerik.com/@bubblemaster/eJapISiW/2

There is another way of including HTML entities as illustrated in this how-to article:

https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/charts/how-to/various/html-in-axes-labels

Kind Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik