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Ampersand Bug - User Title - Rionxee - Jun 22, 2022 When setting a user title and using the ampersand "&" it does not register correctly. i.e. RE: Ampersand Bug - User Title - Cooligan - Jun 23, 2022 Can vouch this does happen. For the longest time I had "&;alt3" or something like that instead of the "<3" that's there now. Xero hooked me up one day a while back though and manually put a "<3" in my motto when he was still admin, that's the only reason it works in mine. RE: Ampersand Bug - User Title - xHeaven - Jun 23, 2022 It's because user titles are encoded via htmlspecialchars() on the backend. It's because certain characters are being replaced by this function on the backend. RE: Ampersand Bug - User Title - source - Jun 23, 2022 This is a security feature I believe. RE: Ampersand Bug - User Title - Omniscient - Jun 25, 2022 For security. Use different characters.