and symbol gets replaced by "&" everywhere on Lemmy
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.
& 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 "\".
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
I don't know why, this happens sometimes and doesn't happen other times. I don't know the cause of it.
& & & this didn't happen now
It happens in post titles in lemmy desktop. lemmy apps vary on correct rendering of certain glyphs/entities. Even bold and italic markdown is rendered literally, that is, incorrectly.
In any case, it's still a bug.
is it a reported bug though?
You can check the issues page on the lemmy-ui repo yourself to see if this has already been reported.
@[email protected] is this bug reported?