• 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

            • Gestrid
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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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                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].

                  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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                    @[email protected].

                    👍

                    But then they also went ahead and put backlashes on both of them. That makes me unsure.
                    Also, do your UIs not have the “Preview” and “view source” features?