Yes, it’s annoying. However, there is a fullwidth ampersand available, as well as lots of other curly characters. I tried adding combining backslashes to those that miss that final stroke of ‘&’ but I gave up as they don’t align consistently across platforms.
Hey I'm trying to abbreviate here
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
im seeing th last three as alpha-with-circle-above … is this intentional?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yes. The first one is a standard diacritical circle as seen in Swedish, the other two are a combining “o” above. The middle one is a standard alpha while the others are math script bold alphas. This is an attempt to create an ersatz “&” without the character
0x26
that appears as&
in post titles and monospace text. The fullwidth ampersand is obviously the closest but it appears with space around it so “D&D” looks more like “D & D” than “D&D”. Hence the attempts with weird characters (D𝛂ͦD, D꯴D, D𐓯D…). Unfortunately, some OSs (notably Windows 10) incorrectly draw most combining diacritics offset to the right of the base letter as a zero-width character.There is a pair of single (non-combining) characters I can demonstrate it with: a combination of K + combining comma below is supposed to look like Ķ but it looks kinda like Қ on Windows. However, Windows stacks combining diacritics so you can create impressively tall Z̷͍̝̿̈́͂̅͝͝͡͡a̷̢̡̢̙̬͕̯̹͍͖̰͕̦͉̘̪͗͂̑͂̑̾́̀̍͗̾́̄̕͝͝l̵̢̨̢̳̻̩̳̘͖͎͎̘̗̬̞͈͌g̸̨͈̠͔̖͎͇̟̍͗̈́̏̿̍̍͗̕o̷͓͎̙͉̯̱̊́͐͘ ̵̣͓̥͈̗̯̹̭̪͕͓̳̈́͌̐̈́̓̈́͑̌̚͡͝t̶̨̛̩̭̬̲͓̣͔̪̠̙̞͚̒͒̽͟͝ͅe̵̛̘͈̜͖̅͊́̅̌̇̒̐͑̚͠͝x̴͌͗͐͌̏͛̕͡͝ͅt̴̡̤̻̺̣̥̝̤̼̺̦̣͎̟́̊̂̈́̃͑̈́̈̈́ while some other platforms just print them over each other like a typewriter does.
Toes@ani.social 1 year ago
Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol this is clever and quick.
Black616Angel@feddit.de 1 year ago
It is already fixed an will be rolled out soon.
Illegal_Prime@dmv.social 1 year ago
&&&&&
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
The problem exists in post titles and fullwidth text.
Ampersand (&): & Less-than sign (ᐸ) : <
(The characters in parentheses are closest Unicode lookalikes)
Broodjefissa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, an En Passant in the wild
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Oh yeah! But what about a real encoding problem meme?
We’re probably dozens who’d appreciate one!
kewko@lemdro.id 1 year ago
&?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
The problem exists in post titles and fullwidth text.
Ampersand (&): & Less-than sign (ᐸ) : < (The characters in parentheses are closest Unicode lookalikes)
WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
Not sure why the devs have so much trouble with parsing this. I’m not sure if it’s an API thing or a front-end issue
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Something somewhere is running an
htmlspecialchars()
or equivalent on whatever you input, probably as an attempt at “sanitizing” the text entered in titles/posts/comments. You know, to keep me from just inserting into a comment and have it to something naughty to anyone who loads the page.I’m certain these are being stored in the database as an &, but they’re not being decoded back into an ampersand character upon display.
WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
I know, just sanitize it again. .Replace(“&”, &), Regex.Remove(amp;), if(.Contains(“amp;”))
onion@feddit.de 1 year ago
Theres a git issue on this
db2@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
&