diff --git a/testssl.sh b/testssl.sh
index 3980869..94b13b4 100755
--- a/testssl.sh
+++ b/testssl.sh
@@ -397,16 +397,13 @@ html_out() {
      # here and other printf's: a little bit of sanitzing with bash internal search&replace -- otherwise printf will hiccup at '%'. '--' and %b do the rest.
 }
 
-out() {
-     printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}"
-     html_out "$1"
-}
-outln() { out "$1\n"; }
+# this is intentionally the same.
+safe_echo()  { printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}"; }
+tm_out()     { printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}"; }
+tmln_out()   { printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}\n"; }
 
-tm_out(){
-     printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}"
-}
-tmln_out() { tm_out "$1\n"; }
+out() { printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}"; html_out "$1"; }
+outln() { printf -- "%b" "${1//%/%%}\n"; html_out "$1"; }
 
 #TODO: Still no shell injection safe but if just run it from the cmd line: that's fine