Quotations marks in backticked blocks get turned into HTML entities

I entered this in a message:

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

NeoChat displayed the following in the message:

locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_NUMERIC=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_TIME=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_COLLATE=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_MONETARY=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_MESSAGES=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_PAPER=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_NAME=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_ADDRESS=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_TELEPHONE=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_MEASUREMENT=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_IDENTIFICATION=&quot;en_US.UTF-8&quot;
LC_ALL=