special-html 
Converts special UTF-8 characters in a string to their HTML escape code equivalents.
Installation
With NPM:
$ npm install special-html
Or component:
$ component install hughsk/special-html
Usage
var special = require('special-html')
, original = '├── http-browserify@0.1.6 (concat-stream@0.0.8)'
console.log(special(original))
// ├── http-browserify@0.1.6 (concat-stream@0.0.8)