Bug#522527: Escape description text with --color html

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> 
> I wonder if we should go all the way to making this a separate output
> format, with the color option retained for backward compatibility.  I
> think that was proposed a while back.
> 

Yeah, at first I hesitated to make the changes I have now proposed because
colour ain't format. But yes, it might be a good idea to move it as an
output format. I don't think other output formats work (well) with --color
html anyway, do they?

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