Text is converted to incorrect symbols on upload
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ShadowForest
If you upload a world or avatar, certain symbols in name or description are incorrectly converted.
For example, exclamations become double exclamation marks, < becomes a filled in triangle, apostrophes get flipped backwards, question marks flip upside down, and other symbols use the incorrect type which has different width. It seems that perhaps they are being converted to a different language's symbol formatting. Is this perhaps an issue with the entire text system VRC is using? It's really bothering, and messes up all the formatting such that I try to avoid any usage of them. To test, if you upload a world with normal symbols, and then go to reupload it again or view it in game, you'll see all the symbols you put were actually replaced with alternate symbols (if the symbol is affected by this bug).
Examples:
! -> ‼
< -> ◀
: -> ：
- -> ㄧ
? -> ¿
' -> ‘
% -> ٪
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~Babo~
tupper: This is not typical string sanitation. This is itself the odd style bug.
LastRar
Tupper (I can't seem to reply to your comment for some reason), you claim this is typical string sanitization, but I've never seen this occur with any other site/app. Websites use HTML entities (I.e. "<" would be "<") and JSON dosn't need you to escape any of example characters above.
Pokerface Cactus
LastRar: it also replaces the german ß with 'ss' and my friend tried to use that ß in their name for stylistic reasons.. so now the second part of their name changed from ballard to ssallard. and they're stuck with that for a few months.. it's really stupid.
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
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This is intentional and is typical string sanitization. It is done to avoid odd style bugs with UI in the app or on the website.