Unicode escape characters appear to be no longer working in .html rendered file, but appear correctly via fig.show()

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Issue w/v5.1.0

I used to be able to embed unicode characters in titles, hovertext, etc. (e.g. \u00B0 for degree symbol) in v4.7.1, but upon using latest release, it appears that live rendering via fig.show() works correctly (i.e. the degree circle is shown), but if I create a .html file and auto-open, the symbol doesn’t resolve and I get a ‘diamond question mark’ symbol. Imagine it is related to the underlying .js engine?

Is there a new escape method or other preferred workaround?

Simple example below embedding symbol in plot title…

import plotly.express as px

df = px.data.gapminder().query("country=='Canada'")
fig = px.line(df, x="year", y="lifeExp", title="Life expectancy in Canada (\u00B0 <- degree symbol)")
fig.write_html("Test.html", auto_open=True)
#fig.show() # uncomment to see correct operation
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Ping to see if any insights? fig.show() renders unicode correctly, but fig.write_html method doesn’t resolve. Just checked and still an issue in plotly for python v5.3.1.