¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ rule
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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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So, can anyone explain why the "
\" symbol disappears when typed out normally? what do you have to do to make it register?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
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)_/¯
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.
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
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.
Huh. didnt think it was that east, thank you!
I just look up "shrug text emoji" and copy pasta that lol 😂
Here you go, this is how to make it appear properly in markdown: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
It will appear as this when you paste it: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks though I don't seem to be having any issues, looks fine on kabin!
Oh my bad, I keep forgetting how differently the fediverse can look in different instances!
No worries I appreciate the help!