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Text in Chord symbols / Roman Numeral Analysis is being HTML escaped

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Description

Issue type

UI bug (incorrect info or interface appearance)

Description with steps to reproduce
  1. I Add Text: Roman Numeral Analysis OR Add Text: Chord Symbol
  2. I type "&" (just the ampersand symbol)
  3. When I exit text edit mode, it changes to "&"
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image

(the "&amp-" is because of the MusAnalysis font)

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/assets/237647/2b80effb-f8d7-4459-9c0c-92337f0184b3

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

OS: macOS 14.5, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.3.2-241630832, revision: github-musescore-musescore-22b46f2

Regression

I was unable to check

Operating system

macOS 14.5

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