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.

      • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        OP noted: “Don’t get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts”

        If you’re running linux commands and scripts, you’re not a normal user and should know this already. :) It’s only been the standard for 30 years or so.

        • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          “standard” is that the character you input stays as the same character and isn’t transformed. The fact that it’s being shown as & means that either OP is using a client which isn’t correctly decoding html, or its being double sanitised as &. Neither tog those is “standard”, it’s a bug.

          • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Not in HTML. Never has worked that way.

            Special reserved characters have always been handled this way because you don’t want to accidentally interpret something the wrong way.

            Same for URL encoding. You upload “Clever Name.PDF” to a website and it generates a URL of “Clever%20Name.PDF” because spaces aren’t valid in URLs. %20 is the code for a space.

            • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              But when you see it on your screen it’s supposed to be converted back into the actual character, otherwise it would be pointless. So if you’re seeing & then the website is messing up.

    • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      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 are on

  • Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.mlOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    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