The Powder Toy

Ace

I noticed that sometimes when you make a thread the words "&quo..." appear at the end of the title, why would that be?

jarrodwhitty9090

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cctvdude99

I think it is the server replacing " with &quo because as it tries to shorten the title it messes up formatting?

JoJoBond

It is the HTML equivalent for a quotation mark (").
Looks like a bug in the forum-software.

It should be: "

Simon

It's a bug caused by the shortening of strings after the substitution of HTML entities.

JoJoBond

@Simon
If you're using php your could use htmlspecialchars_decode before the shortening and htmlspecialchars after it.

Simon

Yes, I just swapped the operations around, I've noticed it before but never bothered to do anything about it,