diff --git a/change_log.txt b/change_log.txt
index a69b9654..8527ab45 100644
--- a/change_log.txt
+++ b/change_log.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 ===== trunk  =====
+13.01.2013
+- enhancement allow to disable exception message escaping by SmartyException::$escape = false;  (Issue #130)
+
 09.01.2013
 - bugfix compilation did fail when a prefilter did modify an {extends} tag (Forum Topic 23966)
 - bugfix template inheritance could fail if nested {block} tags in childs did contain {$smarty.block.child} (Issue #127)
diff --git a/libs/Smarty.class.php b/libs/Smarty.class.php
index ccececae..af99a23c 100644
--- a/libs/Smarty.class.php
+++ b/libs/Smarty.class.php
@@ -1488,8 +1488,9 @@ if (Smarty::$_CHARSET !== 'UTF-8') {
  * @package Smarty
  */
 class SmartyException extends Exception {
+    public static $escape = true;
     public function __construct($message) {
-        $this->message = htmlentities($message);
+        $this->message = self::$escape ? htmlentities($message) : $message;
     }
 }