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and symbol gets replaced by "&" everywhere on Lemmy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

& 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 "\".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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