Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?
Not in HTML. Never has worked that way.
Special reserved characters have always been handled this way because you don’t want to accidentally interpret something the wrong way.
Same for URL encoding. You upload “Clever Name.PDF” to a website and it generates a URL of “Clever%20Name.PDF” because spaces aren’t valid in URLs. %20 is the code for a space.
OP noted: “Don’t get me started on how this messes up linux commands and scripts”
If you’re running linux commands and scripts, you’re not a normal user and should know this already. :) It’s only been the standard for 30 years or so.
& is how & is represented in HTML.
If you need a literal &, then preceed it with an escape character like “\”.
Lost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”.
There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s.
The ouch cowch!
Outlook the other day insisted it was better opening links in Edge instead of my default browser… Yeah, I shut THAT down…
Not unusual… Boring, Oregon is paired with Dull, Scotland, and now they have both teamed up with Bland Shire, New South Wales.
https://www.oregonlive.com/today/2017/07/boring_and_dull_join_bland_to.html
Plot twist: Getting it wrong proves you’re human. Now tell me which pictures have bridges.
My wife has an iPhone, I have an Android phone, our kid has Android, his wife has iPhone… there have been zero problems using the native apps singly or in groups.
In fact, I had more problems trying a low-rent provider (Mint) than I ever did the various stock messaging apps.
It’s just the default app that came with my phone. Encryption isn’t important to me unless someone really wants to snoop on who may or may not have forgotten to buy toilet paper. LOL. We aren’t talking trade secrets here.
I have Android, my wife has iOS, I can chat with her singly and in group chat with other family members, I don’t see a need to complicate things with another chat application.
I really don’t get the need to have an app that does messaging. My phone DOES messaging, built in. Why do I need another one?
That one I never could crack. | is longer so that’s easy.
The Greek question mark is a fraction of a mm thicker. :)
I got used to seeing the same thing between O and 0 in certain fonts. O is wider than 0.
Are you paying your servers a living wage or not? If yes, I’m not tipping.
American here… not cheating by looking it up on Google… Non-Extantistan? The Spanish/French border doesn’t look like that…
“We all float down here… {wheeze!}”
Text encoding is SUPER basic and anyone looking to get involved in Linux or scripting absolutely should know that stuff FIRST.
Source: I was teaching Linux 23 years ago before it was cool.
Here’s a good primer:
ASCII:
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/ASCII-American-Standard-Code-for-Information-Interchange
URL encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP
Entity encoding:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
Really, ALL of the W3Schools stuff is just fantastic. Anyone remotely interested in this stuff should start at the beginning there and work up.