+Vooruit! Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 (edited) I just stumbled upon a problem while creating a new cache. I wanted to put this text inside the hint: [1] 15 < answer < 45 [2] some other hint This, however gave a very strange result. When previewing the cache, it came out as: [1] 15 [2] some other hint Furthermore, for some reason, the decrypt/encrypt switch seemed to have been flipped: I could 'decrypt' the garbled hint, giving: [1] 15 [2] fbzr bgure uvag Obviously, something goes wrong when parsing the hint. Until this gets fixed, I would be grateful to learn how I can have a '<' in the hint. edit: I've tried using <, but this does not get parsed as one would hope. Edited June 19, 2015 by Vooruit! Quote
cezanne Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 [1] 15 < answer < 45 Obviously, something goes wrong when parsing the hint. Until this gets fixed, I would be grateful to learn how I can have a '<' in the hint. Try 45 > answer > 15 as a temporary solution. Or use something like between. Quote
+Vooruit! Posted June 19, 2015 Author Posted June 19, 2015 I don't like it at all, but I guess it'll have to do for now. Thanks for thinking along! Quote
+dprovan Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 You could write it out: "fifteen is less that the answer which is less that forty-five". In addition to getting around the problem, it also makes the hint unclear when it's in rot-13. After all, almost everyone would guess what "15 < nafjre < 45" meant. (Not that hints are really ever kept in rot-13, but it's the principle of the thing...) Quote
+Vooruit! Posted June 20, 2015 Author Posted June 20, 2015 Haven't thought of that, but it makes sense. Quote
+ecanderson Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 At a guess, I'd say the less than character is being interpreted as the opening of an HTML tag. Quote
+Vooruit! Posted June 22, 2015 Author Posted June 22, 2015 My guess as well. Probably some kind of too-well-performing anti-XSS measure. Quote
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