HTML Symbol Entities in event-titles are not rendered in Latest Events Module

Hi,

I use HTML Symbol Entities in my event-titles.
E.g. "Herbst­ferien" to force separating at a special position.

In monthly calendar view and yearly list everything is (rendered) fine.

But displaying the titles by a JEvents - Latest Events Module the signs are not rendered so that I get this output:
"Herbst­ferien"

This is my Custom Format String:
${startDate(%d.%m.%y)}${title}

I even tried ${startDate(%d.%m.%y)}htmlspecialchars(${title}) but this does not work. The word "htmlspecialchars(...)" is just displayed as clean output.

Can you help?