# Zola is not generating "\<" "\>" and others symbols properly

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/zola-is-not-generating-and-others-symbols-properly/2510>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/zola-is-not-generating-and-others-symbols-properly/2510 "2025-03-12T20:11:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![zheg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ce7236/32.png) [@zheg](https://zola.discourse.group/u/zheg)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/zola-is-not-generating-and-others-symbols-properly/2510/1 "2025-03-12T20:11:22Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to use Zola for first time.

Well, as the title says. I’m trying to use the variable `section.page` directly to test and see my markdown parsed to html, but, somehow, some special characters are not parsed properly when I do `zola build`. I adjunt some screenshots.

My final output along the source generated:

 ![output](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/zola1/original/2X/2/27de779e377e75029de9518d653b91b546fec7cd.png)

I hope someone can help me. Thank you for reading.

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**Author:** ![adrianboston](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/adrianboston/32/907_2.png) [@adrianboston](https://zola.discourse.group/u/adrianboston)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/zola-is-not-generating-and-others-symbols-properly/2510/2 "2025-03-12T21:07:12Z")

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index.html looks like a template. not markdown.

Show me a picture of your VS Code explorer with the files and folders in it.

You can likely use a few of the templates if they are there.