# Option: entity_encoding

This option controls how entities/characters gets processed by TinyMCE. The value can be set to numeric, named or raw. Where numeric is numeric representation such as "&#160;" named is entity names such as "&nbsp;" and raw is " ". The default value of this option is named, if named is used the entities option will be used to convert the codes into names.

### Example of usage of the entity_encoding option:

    tinyMCE.init({
    	...
    	entity_encoding : "raw"
    });