Hey I'm trying to abbreviate here

Not sure why the devs have so much trouble with parsing this. I’m not sure if it’s an API thing or a front-end issue
- Something somewhere is running an htmlspecialchars() or equivalent on whatever you input, probably as an attempt at "sanitizing" the text entered in titles/posts/comments. You know, to keep me from just inserting a javascript tag with src='http://pwned.ru/fu.js' into a comment and have it to something naughty to anyone who loads the page.
  I'm certain these are being stored in the database as an & amp;, but they're not being decoded back into an ampersand character upon display.
  
  I know, just sanitize it again. .Replace(“&”, &), Regex.Remove(amp;), if(.Contains(“amp;”))
  
  would it not be possible for whatever's decoding it to run arbitrary Javascript if done wrong? maybe that's why it doesn't exist yet?
  
  Theres a git issue on this
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&AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;AMP;

Yes, it's annoying. However, there is a fullwidth ampersand available, as well as lots of other curly characters. I tried adding combining backslashes to those that miss that final stroke of ‘&’ but I gave up as they don't align consistently across platforms.
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- im seeing th last three as (a/alpha)-with-circle-above ... is this intentional?
  
  Yes. The first one is a standard diacritical circle as seen in Swedish, the other two are a combining “o” above. The middle one is a standard alpha while the others are math script bold alphas. This is an attempt to create an ersatz “&” without the character 0x26 that appears as & in post titles and monospace text. The fullwidth ampersand is obviously the closest but it appears with space around it so “D＆D” looks more like “D & D” than “D&D”. Hence the attempts with weird characters (D𝛂ͦD, D꯴D, D𐓯D...). Unfortunately, some OSs (notably Windows 10) incorrectly draw most combining diacritics offset to the right of the base letter as a zero-width character.
  There is a pair of single (non-combining) characters I can demonstrate it with: a combination of K + combining comma below is supposed to look like Ķ but it looks kinda like Қ on Windows. However, Windows stacks combining diacritics so you can create impressively tall Z̷͍̝̿̈́͂̅͝͝͡͡a̷̢̡̢̙̬͕̯̹͍͖̰͕̦͉̘̪͗͂̑͂̑̾́̀̍͗̾́̄̕͝͝l̵̢̨̢̳̻̩̳̘͖͎͎̘̗̬̞͈͌g̸̨͈̠͔̖͎͇̟̍͗̈́̏̿̍̍͗̕o̷͓͎̙͉̯̱̊́͐͘ ̵̣͓̥͈̗̯̹̭̪͕͓̳̈́͌̐̈́̓̈́͑̌̚͡͝t̶̨̛̩̭̬̲͓̣͔̪̠̙̞͚̒͒̽͟͝ͅe̵̛̘͈̜͖̅͊́̅̌̇̒̐͑̚͠͝x̴͌͗͐͌̏͛̕͡͝ͅt̴̡̤̻̺̣̥̝̤̼̺̦̣͎̟́̊̂̈́̃͑̈́̈̈́ while some other platforms just print them over each other like a typewriter does.

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Lol this is clever and quick.

It is already fixed an will be rolled out soon.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3987

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- The problem exists in post titles and fullwidth text.
  
  Ampersand (＆): & Less-than sign (ᐸ) : <
  (The characters in parentheses are closest Unicode lookalikes)

Oh yeah! But what about a real encoding problem meme?
We're probably dozens who'd appreciate one!

Ah, an En Passant in the wild

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- The problem exists in post titles and fullwidth text.
  
  Ampersand (＆): & Less-than sign (ᐸ) : < (The characters in parentheses are closest Unicode lookalikes)

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