&#039; is not a substitute for an apostrophe

afmghost·Jul 6, 2018·4 votes·2,964 views

Yet everytime I quote something in a reply it shows up instead of the apostrophes used in it. What good does replacing it do? Just use the apostrophe.

4 Comments

InTheoryJul 7, 20181 votes

Same goes for

which is always being exchanged by some weird term when I create a thread.

It works but it is pretty annoying to ctrl-a then ctrl-c, post thread, edit, ctrl-a into ctrl-v just to have the text be displayed the way it should.

ModiJul 13, 20181 votes

> is the html entity for a greater-than symbol (aka the > symbol). The boards will code use that literally in the markup;

If you are seeing &gt;If you need to decode it, remove the amp; part, to make it >, it will get converted into > in the post.

P.S. It took way too much of my time to correctly type that out to make sure I had enough escapes in place :)

ModThe DjinnJul 7, 20181 votes

It's unfortunately a combination of the way the quote feature is coded and the way board text is coded. I'm not honestly sure it's something the moderation team can fix (or that it's worth it as opposed to other changes we could make), although the issue is on our radar.

afmghostJul 7, 20181 votes

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It's unfortunately a combination of the way the quote feature is coded and the way board text is coded. I'm not honestly sure it's something the moderation team can fix (or that it's worth it as opposed to other changes we could make), although the issue is on our radar.

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