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My recent post in the OS X 10.5 community, titled as shown below, was actually:
"Time Machine backups -- are they accessible by Boot Camp, Parallels &/or Fusion virtual machines?"
Either the 'forward slash' (/) character or the '&' are causing a mis-rendering.
Special characters are changed to html entities in titles when a post is edited. If you use these characters in a title and then edit your post, make sure you re-enter those characters before you publish your edited post.
Tuttle wrote:
Special characters are changed to html entities in titles when a post is edited. If you use these characters in a title and then edit your post, make sure you re-enter those characters before you publish your edited post.
Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand. I just put '&/or' in the title when I composed the message. When the message actually posted the '&/or' was coverted to '&/or'. I don't follow what editing the post itself (if I even did that) has to do with it. IOW, I assume that if I put '&/or' in another message title the same thing would happen.
In my experience, using special characters in titles is okay until the topic post (OP) is edited. At that point, the special character is turned into an html entity by the forum software.
The html entity (in your case, &) is visible in the title field of the page when the post is being edited (even if it's usually overlooked). If the entity is deleted at that point and the special character is retyped, then the title will appear as expected when the edited post is published.
Tuttle wrote:
In my experience, using special characters in titles is okay until the topic post (OP) is edited. At that point, the special character is turned into an html entity by the forum software.
The html entity (in your case, &) is visible in the title field of the page when the post is being edited (even if it's usually overlooked). If the entity is deleted at that point and the special character is retyped, then the title will appear as expected when the edited post is published.
OK, now I know. Thanks.
'Forward Slash' (/) character does not render properly in post 'titles'
