From 3938cd9ec39914c22d30b4b8f8937ebdce3df8b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Caron <lead2gold@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 10:42:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Removed HTML escaping for Telegram TEXT handling (#383)

---
 apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py b/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py
index 4bfd2d36..ecf248db 100644
--- a/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py
+++ b/apprise/plugins/NotifyTelegram.py
@@ -549,11 +549,6 @@ class NotifyTelegram(NotifyBase):
 
         else:  # TEXT
             payload['parse_mode'] = 'HTML'
-
-            # Escape content
-            title = NotifyTelegram.escape_html(title, whitespace=False)
-            body = NotifyTelegram.escape_html(body, whitespace=False)
-
             payload['text'] = '{}{}'.format(
                 '<b>{}</b>\r\n'.format(title) if title else '',
                 body,