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I have a thing on my phone that lets me do a ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and for some reason lt loses an arm on Lemmy. Made me so sad to realize no bot is gonna answer that.
In programming backslash can sometimes be used to enter special characters. Maybe Lemmy also follows this syntax? If so, typing two consecutive backslashes might help.
Test with one backslash:
Test with two backslashes: \
Isn’t that just markdown? Eg wrapping with a star/asterisk italicizes. If you want to escape that you backslash.
test in italics, made by wrapping with asterisks
* = a backslash escaped asterisk
Here: \ you lost this.
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Hmm yea. That is my main coping mechanism actually. Defective humor or smth.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You need 3 backslashes:
Backslashes are escape characters:
Zero would convert it underscore italics
¯ (ツ)/¯
apparently the ¯ cancels the italics on it's own so I had to add a space to demonstrate...
One cancels the underscore _italics_
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Two just cancels the escape to the underscore \italics
¯\(ツ)/¯
Three, finally cancels the escape to the escape to the underscore \_italics_
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯_(ツ)_/¯