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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

4 panel comic:
1 NPC says: A Lesbian? You just haven't had the right dick yet
2 person replies: But my gf has a dick
3 NPC with blank look
4 NPC looks angry

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Markdown formatting, \ is often used as what is called an escape sequence. I don't knew the rules for lemmy's markdown, just remember to add 2 \'s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

with the shrug emoticon you have to use 3

the underscore is used for text formatting so you have to escape it and the back slash

2 ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

3 ¯⁠\\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh dear. In my client, Connect, the 2 slash version looks right and the 3 slash version has a doubled arm. I suspect it's not rendering markdown correctly.

Lemme try:

¯⁠\\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Okay idk how to describe this, but those two text strings above are seemingly identical in plain text, but one renders correctly, the other incorrectly in my client. I feel like I'm being gaslit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Liftoff here, 2 is the right number... except in some comments where 3 works too unless it doesn't 🤷

2 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - OK (second italics escaped)

32 20 c2 af [5c 5c] 5f 28 e3 83 84 29 [5c 5f] 2f c2 af 0a

2 ¯\(ツ)/¯ - unescaped ITALICS

32 20 c2 af [5c 5c] 5f 28 e3 83 84 29 5f 2f c2 af 0a

3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - OK (first italics escaped)

33 20 c2 af [5c 5c] [5c 5f] 28 e3 83 84 29 5f 2f c2 af 0a

3 ¯⁠\\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ - doubled

33 20 c2 af [e2 81 a0] [5c 5c] 5c [e2 81 a0] 5f [e2 81 a0] 28 [e2 81 a0] e3 83 84 [e2 81 a0] 29 [e2 81 a0] 5f [e2 81 a0] 2f [e2 81 a0] c2 af 0a

0xE281A0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_joiner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, so there's a non-printing character in there. It's weird that the person making a demo to explain it made that mistake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Huh. didnt think it was that east, thank you!