Suddenly, this website is inserting / before an apostrophe (Staff: fixed) Thread poster: Tom in London
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:19
Member (2008)
Italian to English
I've only noticed this since yesterday, and it's a big nuisance.
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| It hasn\'t escaped my attention | Aug 9, 2015 |
I submitted a support ticket about it about an hour ago.
It looks like an escape character having gone wrong. As \' and \" could interfere with the site\'s html, they apparently use so-called escape characters before them, meaning the sign following the escape character should not be interpreted as code but simply displayed. Or maybe that\'s what they used to do, and they made a change to another technique and forgot to remove the escape characters. Or whatever.
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Was just about to start a thread about this as well.
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I\'ll post the reply from support when I get one.
Maybe they\'ve slashed their IT staff or hired a slasher by mistake.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:19
Member (2008)
Italian to English
TOPIC STARTER | And that\'s not all | Aug 9, 2015 |
Look what happens if you\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ve altered a post a few times!
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[Edited at 2015-08-09 20:41 GMT]
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| Somebody screwed up big time | Aug 9, 2015 |
I tried to update my profile today and it screwed up all the URLs. I’ve had to remove them all as no images or links would work. Now I’m left with the ugliest profile ever 
[Edited at 2015-08-09 20:43 GMT]
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Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 21:19
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Tom in London wrote:
Look what happens if you\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ve altered a post a few times!
Useful for seeing how many times the author edited his post.
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| First comment from support | Aug 10, 2015 |
\"Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I see that the issue has already been referred to the site developers to be processed internally. Development, including adjustments and fixing-ups, may take some time but I promise to notify you here as soon as this has been resolved and tested or as soon as I have any news.\"
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| Issue corrected | Aug 10, 2015 |
Hello everyone,
This issue, which started late on Friday, has now been corrected. Unfortunately, posts since then will continue to display the extraneous backslashes, but new posts will not.
These will not be displayed with backslashes: ' "
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Thanks for fixing it so quickly.
So there should only be a single occurrence of each of the following characters now:
\ " ' &
(also after editing)
[Edited at 2015-08-10 10:38 GMT]
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