[geeklog-users] Problems with special characters

kko karkoma at karkomaonline.com
Thu Nov 13 17:24:37 EST 2003


Have you tried the same with <pre>...</pre>?

Regards.
Alberto.

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:39, Rob Griffiths wrote:

> >> >Note that the "\" character disappeared

> >>

> >> Yeah, that's a long-standing bug. But the other characters should be

> >> reproduced verbatim.

>

> >Thanks. Do you know when it will be fixed?

>

> I thought it was fixed!?? It seems to work perfectly well on my site

> (www.macosxhints.com, if you want to play with the submission engine),

> though I can't remember which version of GL it's running -- but I know I

> haven't hacked any regex stuff to make that bit work (as I lack the

> talent!). But if I create a test story, in HTML mode, that looks like

> this:

>

> [code]

> Testing\backslashes<>and other things

> <\end>

> [/code]

>

> When I hit Preview, I see exactly what would be expected in the output

> area, and my input box is *still* perfectly showing the backslashes and

> all the other characters. I can preview as many times as I wish and it

> doesn't change. I thought [code] explicitly took care of the backslash

> problem? It certainly seems to on my site...

>

> In case it helps, here's the version line from my index.php:

>

> // $Id: index.php,v 1.40 2002/12/31 10:58:55 dhaun Exp $

>

> -rob.

>

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