custom bbcode / how to stop conversion to htmlentities

[sde]

[test]some <b>custom</b> text i want to parse[/test]

by the time this hits my handle_bbcode_test() function, the HTML characters are converted. i.e. < is converted to &lt;

i do not want it to do that. i need to preserve the HTML characters in their original form so i can do my own formatting.

i want it to work similar to the code tags except i notice that even in the code tags the HTML is converted by the time it reaches the handler.

here's my [test] declaration

PHP Code:

//[TEST]
            $tag_list['no_option']['test'] = array(
                'callback' => 'handle_bbcode_test',
                'strip_empty' => true,
                'disable_smilies' => true,
                'disable_wordwrap' => true,
                'strip_space_after' => 2
            ); 


any insight would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

[sde]

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