[Catalyst] html escaping question

[Mario Minati]

Hello @all,

as you could help me that fast and excellent yesterday I have an other 
question to you ;)

What is the best/common practice to get text that might containt html 
escapable characters (e. g. '&', '<') from a form field to catalyst to db and 
back to form field?

At the moment I'm thinking of not doing any html escaping at all and believe 
in unicode to handle the encoding correctly, but I would ran into problems 
with '<funname>'. 

So if I escape a string and send it back to the form the content of the 
textfield is '&lt;funame&gt;'. Why is that?

Again every thought is allmost welcome.

Greets,
Mario Minati