[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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