Subject: We can ^_^ if we want to
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Posted on: 2019-10-16 02:59:22 UTC

See? ^_^

Much like Houdini, however, it takes some escaping.

Okay, I'll stop joking and actually explain. You can tell T-board things aren't formatting and are just literal text by prefixing them with a backslash. So to get "^_^", you actually need to type "\^\_\^". And to get a \, you type \\.

This is pretty standard on a lot of online forum-ey places, which is likely why T-board currently does it (and it's also a lot easier to make secure than HTML...), but given how common ^_^ is here, we may need to modify the rules a bit so ^ and _ aren't used maybe? I dunno. I also dunno if we'd be able to do that completely without just ripping stuff out—we're using someone else's code for that part, I think, and I don't know how easy it is to customize.

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