[geeklog-users] Problems with special characters

[Tony Bibbs]

FYI, someone needs to implement ntpd...this email came at a point in the 
future.

kko wrote:
> 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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