and symbol gets replaced by "&" everywhere on Lemmy
and symbol gets replaced by "&" everywhere on Lemmy
Is this a known issue? If you type in
somewhere it will be replaced byDon'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.
amp; 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