Parsing contents inside PRE tag?

Hi:

I'm very close to picking wpDiscuz for my next project, though one thing I really need is the ability for users to post code using the PRE tag and have wpDiscuz parse it in the same fashion as the CODE tag. That is, replace all HTML tags with their entities version. I can pretty up the result using another plugin, but I can't seem to get the first step to work using any other plugin on top of wpDiscuz. Is there a native way to enable this? I think I'm not the only one who would benefit/ appreciate such a functionality. Thanks,