Why do ampersands (&) need to be encoded in JSF? Is there a way around this?

Question

I often have Javascript on my JSF XHTML pages that has && in it, which I end up having to encode as &&

For example, when I place

Answer 1

FYI, I tried to write the (c) character in my JSF page. An error was raised when I wrote © : "copy is referenced but not declared" When I wrote © I got the raw string back.

I could display the special character using the unicode notation : ©