Html metacharacters in sourcecode

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  programmingpraxis · Member · Sep 19, 2009 at 1:22 am

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  Help page http://support.wordpress.com/code/ describes a ‘sourcecode’ tag that permits the inclusion of program source code in posts and comments. I have used this successfully in the past. Recently, this feature seems to have changed, and now html metacharacters such as less-than, greater-than and ampersand are converted to html before the sourcecode formatter gets hold of them, rendering them incorrectly. Is there any fix for this behavior?

  Many thanks,

  Phil

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 19, 2009 at 2:03 am

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  Contact staff directly about this as there have indeed been changes as I understand it, and there could be some bugs that need to be worked out.

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  programmingpraxis · Member · Sep 19, 2009 at 2:22 am

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  Thanks for confirming that there have been recent changes to the sourcecode feature.

  I just sent a message to the support staff.

  Phil

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 19, 2009 at 2:26 am

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  You’re welcome. From what one staff member said in another thread, they are preparing an announcement of some sort that will hit our dashboards in the wordpress.com news section.

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  designsimply · Member · Sep 20, 2009 at 12:10 pm

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  @programmingpraxis, thanks for reporting this in support with an example URL. :) The sourcecode shortcode has been fixed.