• fdrake
    6.7k
    ABCDEFG

    There's a bug in the parser, something surrounded by square braces which begins with b, i, u, s will be interpreted as the corresponding to bold/italic/underline/strikethrough tags. Thus the remainder of the text in the square bracket will not be part of the post output. First line of this post demonstrates the bug. Mods/admins can view it through post edit if required.

    Work arounds:

    • Don't use square brackets. Use () {} instead.
    • Don't make the first character of a square bracket b,i,s or u.

    For non-mods, the first line is below, but remove all ".".
    [.b oop]A[.i oop]B[.s oop]C[.u oop]D[./u oop]E[./s oop]F[./i oop]G[./b oop]
  • Jamal
    9.8k
    Well spotted. Not such a big problem, I wouldn't think (how did you uncover it?). We don't have direct access to the code to implement a fix, and there are several things that would take priority, but I guess I could mention it next time I send the devs a list of feature requests.
  • fdrake
    6.7k


    @Sam26 found it in one of his posts. I pissed about with it for a while and replicated/generalised it.

    Thanks to Sam26 for clocking it.
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