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 Let punctuation marks show up on the ship comms. 
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Apostrophes and quotes won't show up for some reason. Some other punctuation marks won't show up either, I think.

Why don't they? Will this please get fixed?

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Wed May 16, 2018 7:08 am
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It's most likely done to prevent SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). There are ways of doing it where you can retain non-alphanumeric characters, but these are sometimes quite complex, and seeing as GL is "home-brew" it was probably much easier for the developers at the time to just strip everything out.

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Wed May 16, 2018 8:04 am
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Guide wrote:
It's most likely done to prevent SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). There are ways of doing it where you can retain non-alphanumeric characters, but these are sometimes quite complex, and seeing as GL is "home-brew" it was probably much easier for the developers at the time to just strip everything out.

Guide explained quite well.

in place of quotes .. use a period. looks kind of weird but it won.t require any more coding workarounds.

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Guide wrote:
It's most likely done to prevent SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). There are ways of doing it where you can retain non-alphanumeric characters, but these are sometimes quite complex, and seeing as GL is "home-brew" it was probably much easier for the developers at the time to just strip everything out.


It's not even that, it has a more simple reason. It's to prevent HTML tags


Thu May 17, 2018 2:58 pm
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Mythra wrote:
Guide wrote:
It's most likely done to prevent SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). There are ways of doing it where you can retain non-alphanumeric characters, but these are sometimes quite complex, and seeing as GL is "home-brew" it was probably much easier for the developers at the time to just strip everything out.


It's not even that, it has a more simple reason. It's to prevent HTML tags

I feel like that is covered by XSS, but yes, that too.

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Thu May 17, 2018 4:47 pm
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Mythra wrote:
Guide wrote:
It's most likely done to prevent SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). There are ways of doing it where you can retain non-alphanumeric characters, but these are sometimes quite complex, and seeing as GL is "home-brew" it was probably much easier for the developers at the time to just strip everything out.


It's not even that, it has a more simple reason. It's to prevent HTML tags

HTML tags are angle brackets, not quotes, but the principle is the same .. block browser exploits

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