• Gestrid
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            4 months ago

            Try this:

            \> : |

            That should come out as:

            > : |

            • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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              4 months ago

              I don’t get it.
              Are you replying to “Except fun fact…no.” - u/[email protected]
              Or to my reply to it, that implies, maybe their renderer is non-standard and causing the backslashes to not work.

              \>\>:| --> >>:| works pretty well for me.

              • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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                4 months ago

                this is a whole mess of confusion and miscommunication that probably absolutely no one cares about, and I for one am happy to just watch

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                4 months ago

                That shows up as two sets of eyebrows for me.

                • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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                  4 months ago

                  I see, so the confusion is about whether u/[email protected] intended the double eyebrow or they made a mistake with that and are being corrected for it.

                  I thought they wanted the double eyebrow, because why would you put 2 if you only wanted one? And if you wanted the “quote” option, you would just not escape the leftmost “>”.


                  In case my above words are more confusing, Yes, it shows up as 2 sets of eyebrows for me too.
                  I thought that’s what the Thread Starter wanted.

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                  • Gestrid
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                    4 months ago

                    No, they were trying to make only one set of eyebrows appear. They tried fixing it by using two sets, thinking using one as a quote would make the other appear as a set of eyebrows. Instead, they got two quotes.

                    Also, you type usernames on Lemmy like this: @[email protected].