Clan News/Rules

Started by Raggon, August 21, 2013, 01:18:49 PM

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Raggon

I'm sure that this has been posted before, but I don't think it would be too hard to fix.  If you use an apostrophe in either the clan news or clan rules (anything else?) it adds a backslash in front of the apostrophe. Is this a bug, or am I just being silly?
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Shadow

It's about how computers handle special characters. When you use apostrophes they usually have special meaning in code, and so when you want them to be a normal character you put a backslah in front of them so the computer knows the difference (this is called "escaping a character").

Of course, the machine is not supposed to print them, so it seems that the code is escaping characters that don't need it, or possibly doing it too many times. I'll poke it at some point.
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