What does this mean?
What does this mean?
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quattrophenia

Original Poster:

1,103 posts

229 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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OK, this is certainly going to be stupid question of the century, but I keep seeing the following abbreviations in the classifieds and have no idea what they represent. Anyone want to put me out of my misery!paperbag

'P&apos

Toma500

1,249 posts

284 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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Im in the same boat as you hehe

ray_von

3,065 posts

283 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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I'm sure some IT nerd will explain but is it not down to some sort of formatting . When you click on the ad it should all become as plain as day

spend

12,581 posts

282 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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apostrophe - XML/http (v4 IIRC) rendering issue?..

SimonV8ster

13,028 posts

259 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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Everybody has wanted to ask that question...........

Flintstone

8,644 posts

278 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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spend said:
apostrophe - XML/http (v4 IIRC) rendering issue?..
Yup.

I asked in the feedback forum. 'apos' appears when you type in an apostrophe. Apparently it's on the list of jobs to be done.

brhobfm

14 posts

233 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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I quite like it. There is an element of surprise when you click on the ad! spin

quattrophenia

Original Poster:

1,103 posts

229 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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Flintstone said:
spend said:
apostrophe - XML/http (v4 IIRC) rendering issue?..
Yup.

I asked in the feedback forum. 'apos' appears when you type in an apostrophe. Apparently it's on the list of jobs to be done.
What, you mean after all the time I have spent trying to interpret what the abbreviation stands for it is little more than a computer bug! banghead

slideways

4,101 posts

252 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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its a computor error it happens when you use the appostrophie ie he's
Rich

Edited by slideways on Saturday 4th October 23:01

Don1

16,878 posts

239 months

Saturday 4th October 2008
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Could you repeat it please? wink

MuffDaddy

1,507 posts

236 months

Sunday 5th October 2008
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Isn't is A pile of st smile