diff --git a/MapAnalyzer.jar b/MapAnalyzer.jar
index 4e56256..671a2bd 100644
Binary files a/MapAnalyzer.jar and b/MapAnalyzer.jar differ
diff --git a/MapDesignerRaster.jar b/MapDesignerRaster.jar
index 6307817..0f76093 100644
Binary files a/MapDesignerRaster.jar and b/MapDesignerRaster.jar differ
diff --git a/MapDesignerVector.jar b/MapDesignerVector.jar
index d8faf9e..bcb768c 100644
Binary files a/MapDesignerVector.jar and b/MapDesignerVector.jar differ
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 74676a6..41c09e4 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<property name="dir.commons" value="C:\Program Files\Java\commons-math3-3.6.1"/>
 	<property name="dir.jre" value="C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8"/>
 	<property name="dir.jarfile" value="."/>
-	<property name="version" value="3.5.4"/>
+	<property name="version" value="3.5.5"/>
 	<property name="year" value="2023"/>
 	
 	<target name="setup">
diff --git a/src/apps/MapDesignerVector.java b/src/apps/MapDesignerVector.java
index 5e48abe..50bbc7a 100644
--- a/src/apps/MapDesignerVector.java
+++ b/src/apps/MapDesignerVector.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.function.BiConsumer;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 
+import static image.SVGMap.escapeHTML;
 import static java.lang.Double.isNaN;
 import static java.lang.Math.hypot;
 import static java.lang.String.format;
@@ -378,7 +379,7 @@ public class MapDesignerVector extends MapApplication {
 			}
 			// for non-data Strings, replace "Equirectangular" with the name of the projection
 			else if (elementS instanceof Content) {
-				elementP = new Content(((Content) elementS).content.replace("Equirectangular", proj.getName()));
+				elementP = new Content(((Content) elementS).content.replace("Equirectangular", escapeHTML(proj.getName())));
 			}
 			// anything else doesn't need to be changed with the projection
 			else {
diff --git a/src/image/SVGMap.java b/src/image/SVGMap.java
index badff08..841ffa1 100644
--- a/src/image/SVGMap.java
+++ b/src/image/SVGMap.java
@@ -154,15 +154,8 @@ public class SVGMap implements Iterable<SVGMap.SVGElement>, SavableImage {
 			@Override
 			public void characters(char[] characters, int start, int length) {
 				// just dump the provided characters into currentFormatString
-				StringBuilder characterString = new StringBuilder();
-				for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
-					char c = characters[start + i];
-					if (c >= 128 || c == '\'' || c == '"' || c == '<' || c == '>' || c == '&') // some characters must be escaped here
-						characterString.append("&#").append((int) c).append(";");
-					else
-						characterString.append(c);
-				}
-				elements.add(new Content(characterString.toString()));
+				elements.add(new Content(escapeHTML(
+						new String(characters).substring(start, start + length))));
 			}
 			
 //			@Override  /* only available in Java 14+ */
@@ -545,6 +538,19 @@ public class SVGMap implements Iterable<SVGMap.SVGElement>, SavableImage {
 		string.append(">");
 		return string.toString();
 	}
+	
+	
+	public static String escapeHTML(String raw) {
+		StringBuilder escaped = new StringBuilder();
+		for (int i = 0; i < raw.length(); i ++) {
+			char c = raw.charAt(i);  // don't forget to escape special characters
+			if (c >= 128 || c == '\'' || c == '"' || c == '<' || c == '>' || c == '&') // some characters must be escaped here
+				escaped.append(format("&#%d;", (int) c));
+			else
+				escaped.append(c);
+		}
+		return escaped.toString();
+	}
 
 
 	/**