I'm gonna post this here, because I could not find a way to do this anywhere else on the internet. I saw a bunch of questions regarding this, but no one seemed to want to answer it.
To be allowed to use very simple symbols like <, >, &, and " and not have them printed into HTML entities like <, >, & and ":
Open vbshout.php and find:
PHP Code:
$text = htmlspecialchars_uni(trim($text));
Replace with:
PHP Code:
$text = trim($text);
This will allow you to use symbols and still disallow HTML in shouts.