Question about glitch in posts.

[Make7]

8. They may be escaping double quotes in the database to prevent scripts from running.

It looks like they are escaping quotes in messages with an html entity as a security measure. The quotation marks are being replaced with " and when coupled with the closing parentheses will result in ") - which happens to trigger the wink smilie ;) leaving &quot behind, which most browsers will display as a quotation mark even without the semi-colon. Thus, the quotation mark–wink smilie display.

The solution is to use an html entity to defeat the emoticon character combination shortcut. Either with a normal closing parentheses ) or a full width one ） - the full width one can simply be copied when needed, the normal one turns into the actual character upon being previewed and therefore has to be posted while still an html entity - usually just hitting the back button on your browser after previewing works fine.

If this glitch bugs you, just copy and use the parentheses from this:

（one last "time"）

You can bookmark this thread to find this again. Or just use the 'insert the space' solution.