Update code & mocks to not depend on entity decode

Author: scjody

src/plots/cartesian/axes.js

@@ -1053,7 +1053,8 @@ function formatLinear(ax, out, hover, extraPrecision, hideexp) {
 // new, more reliable procedure than d3.round or similar:
 // add half the rounding increment, then stringify and truncate
 // also automatically switch to sci. notation
-var SIPREFIXES = ['f', 'p', 'n', 'μ', 'm', '', 'k', 'M', 'G', 'T'];
+var SIPREFIXES = ['f', 'p', 'n', 'μ', 'm', '', 'k', 'M', 'G', 'T'];
+
 function numFormat(v, ax, fmtoverride, hover) {
         // negative?
     var isNeg = v < 0,
@@ -1144,7 +1145,7 @@ function numFormat(v, ax, fmtoverride, hover) {
             v += 'E' + signedExponent;
         }
         else if(exponentFormat === 'power') {
-            v += '&times;10<sup>' + signedExponent + '</sup>';
+            v += '×10<sup>' + signedExponent + '</sup>';
         }
         else if(exponentFormat === 'B' && exponent === 9) {
             v += 'B';

src/plots/cartesian/graph_interact.js

@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ function cleanPoint(d, hovermode) {
             d.xLabel += ' +' + xeText + ' / -' +
                 Axes.tickText(d.xa, d.xa.c2l(d.xerrneg), 'hover').text;
         }
-        else d.xLabel += ' ± ' + xeText;
+        else d.xLabel += ' ± ' + xeText;
 
         // small distance penalty for error bars, so that if there are
         // traces with errors and some without, the error bar label will
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ function cleanPoint(d, hovermode) {
             d.yLabel += ' +' + yeText + ' / -' +
                 Axes.tickText(d.ya, d.ya.c2l(d.yerrneg), 'hover').text;
         }
-        else d.yLabel += ' ± ' + yeText;
+        else d.yLabel += ' ± ' + yeText;
 
         if(hovermode === 'y') d.distance += 1;
     }

test/image/mocks/axes_enumerated_ticks.json

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
         "xaxis": {
             "ticktext": [
                 "<span style=\"fill:green\">green</span> eggs",
-                "&amp; ham",
+                "& ham",
                 "H<sub>2</sub>O",
                 "Gorgonzola"
             ],
@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@
             ]
         }
     }
-}
+}