I like to view what the post says by hovering over the title on the main page without needing to load if it is just a small little text, or I don't feel like I want to comment on it. However whenever there is an ' it appears as some strange set of numbers. It is probably just a tiny bug, but it can could make the boards feel just a little bit more professional...
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I like to view what the post says by hovering over the title on the main page without needing to load if it is just a small little text, or I don't feel like I want to comment on it. However whenever there is an ' it appears as some strange set of numbers. It is probably just a tiny bug, but it can could make the boards feel just a little bit more professional...
It's entity encoding. Their parser converts some characters that have other uses to minimize unwanted post behavior. For instance, using "<" often truncates posts because that is a tag opener in some languages' syntax (e.g., HTML). To use that without breaking a post, it's encoded to "<"
It can be overriden, and easily. I don't know why it's still this way.
