G'day All,

I had some problems with the rendering of the title of a post. I can't find any specific information: Super Search with keywords like title is not particularly useful. I suspect this may be documented somewhere; I hoping someone can point me to that.

The specific problem occurred with "Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [ZERO WIDTH SPACE]". That node's title currently renders as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [ZERO WIDTH SPACE].

Originally, the end of that was [​] which rendered as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [].

I didn't think that entity references were honoured in titles; however, this indicated I was wrong (or so I believed). I thought that would be an easy fix and changed the end part to [​]; but that rendered as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [​].

As I couldn't work out the apparently contradictory behaviour, I simply took a pragmatic approach and changed the end to [ZERO WIDTH SPACE] (its current value).

Any help with this would be appreciated.

— Ken

In reply to What are the formatting rules for the "Title" of posts? by kcott

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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