Chat API (REST) agent message type

When agent sends message,text field has html tags.Can textType be specified in some way to be only text?

I'm sending message from Agent console so is  this  "problem" only for communications using agent  console?

@id: "5"

@type: "line"

time: "2013-07-24T04:27:49.480-04:00"

textType: "html"

text: "<span dir="ltr">Hi there</span>"

by: "AgentName"

source: "agent"

subType: "REGULAR"