Why I am unable to post % character in quick reply
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Why I am unable to post % character in quick reply
Just noticed that I can't use the opening exclamation sign (¡) on LQ. (I attempted to use it in this post).
Not that it matters too much as English doesn't use this sign, but I thought I should let you know. By the way, I used the quick reply button too when attempting to use the sign.
Suspecting it was caused by the message line used by printf as a format, I tried the workaround to duplicate the % for it to appear in the posting and it worked.
Yeah, me too. I find that only the first percent sign in the post disappears, and subsequent ones are okay. For example, I write one percent, two percent, three percent below:
1% # See? This one disappeared
2% # but not this one
3% # not this one either
It even disappears within CODE blocks!
Anyway, I was able to get my post done by placing a "sacrificial" percent sign at the beginning of the post.
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03-20-2015 01:12 AM
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