On Twitter, the Greater than sign shows up as &GT it lets me type it in properly, but once I post it, the encoding is off. I am on western 8859-1

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> doesn't show up on my screen properly. It does when I type, but it doesn't once it shows up as a tweet

Such an HTML escape conversion to the HTML entity is usually done automatically to avoid problems with browsers interpreting the > as a closing HTML tag.
If you type &amp;gt; then the & might get converted to &amp;amp; and thus show the HTML entity as plain text like it has been entered.

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