Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml Ganesh Venugopal @lemmy.ml 1 yr. ago

and symbol gets replaced by "&" everywhere on Lemmy

Is this a known issue? If you type in somewhere it will be replaced by

Don't get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts, Is this a me problem or a lemmy problem? I need to study, if this is a known problem, then fine, but if it isn't then it needs to be reported.

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& is how & is represented in HTML.

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php/105012-What-does-amp-amp-mean-see-it-a-lot-and-its-not-in-the-acronym-page

If you need a literal &, then preceed it with an escape character like "\".
- These are programming details that the user should not have to think about.
  
  OP noted: "Don't get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts"
  
  If you're running linux commands and scripts, you're not a normal user and should know this already. :) It's only been the standard for 30 years or so.
- thank you! that's intersting. I have had scripts ruined due to this. I thought markdown did that by default at least when code blocks are on
I don't know why, this happens sometimes and doesn't happen other times. I don't know the cause of it.

& & & this didn't happen now
- It happens in post titles in lemmy desktop. lemmy apps vary on correct rendering of certain glyphs/entities. Even bold and italic markdown is rendered literally, that is, incorrectly.
  
  In any case, it's still a bug.
  
  is it a reported bug though?
This is what I mean &

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and symbol gets replaced by "&amp;" everywhere on Lemmy

and symbol gets replaced by "&" everywhere on Lemmy