It's a bug!

[the_real_seebs]

So, was chatting, and something I said had an apostrophe in it.

Which showed up in guild chat (to other people, as well as to me on the app) as "'".

[the_real_seebs]

Oh, " too.

[Glamour]

have been seeing this too. makes reading guild chat interesting when half the guilds using the moblie to chat.

[Audiocubes]

Happens on the iPad as well!

[Thurfir]

I'm assuming that you'll fix all the XML style substitutions for "awkward" characters at the same time, but thought I'd list this one (also found on an iPad) too.

Thurfir

[Sandalphon]

getting it too when doing the same, good for making people think wtf in guild though.

[Sebb]

It's very annoying. I never knew how much I used ' before.

[the_real_seebs]

also <> => &lt;&gt;

But it&apos;s no &quot;big deal&quot;, I&apos;m sure the guildies will cope.

[TimeBomb]

Geek explanation:

What you are seeing is known as HTML escaped characters.
It's used for security reasons, as part of a system to prevent user input from harming anything.
For example, > is escaped to &gt;

Browsers will usually display the escaped characters, i.e. &gt;, as the > character, but it has no function besides being displayed. It prevents HTML exploitation(i.e. user input changing/modifying the HTML the developer has written).

From face value, the mobile appears to escape all HTML/etc characters, including apostrophes. But the RIFT client can't display this as a normal browser would. I am not even sure why/if this would be needed, since it is only going to be displayed ingame, where the HTML syntax is (seemingly) not interpreted.

There is also a 'secret' escaped character that can be used to meet the 10 character limit (on forums and what-not), but the browser won't display them - not even as a space.

[Glamour]

Geek explanation:

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we know we know

[kytsuri]

This issue should be resolved with our newest update. Thanks for your patience, as we realize it&apos;s a pretty annoying bug =)

Thanks everyone for the bug reports and please let us know if you run into this issue after the update!

[the_real_seebs]

Oddly, it stopped happening to me on my ipad a day or two back.

Now I'm trying out lootables on my 4S to see whether it's stopped hanging there.