MATLAB: Html code used along with Matlab

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I have recently found that Matlab can use LaTeX character sequences. However, they only can be used by the functions text, title, xlabel, ylabel and zlabel. I have designed a GUI in which has an uitable. Its header is a string that uses HTML code and looks like this:
header = {'<center>Component X<br />(km/s^2)</center>', ...
           '<center>Component Y<br />(km/s^2)</center>', ...
           '<center>Component Z<br />(km/s^2)</center>'};
My intention is replacing s^2 with s squared. Because of I can not use LaTeX characters inside the string "header" (at least I had tried it and it did not work), I would like to know how I could do it if I use HTML code which I do not know.

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Another approach:
header = {'<center>Component X<br />(km/s&sup2;)</center>', ...
         '<center>Component Y<br />(km/s&sup2;)</center>', ...
         '<center>Component Z<br />(km/s&sup2;)</center>'};
Well, the display of the HTML characters in this forum drives my crazy. Th "²" is written as "& s u p 2 ;" without the spaces.
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