Something very strange is going on with backslashes in DU mail and board messages

[highplainsdem]

I noticed this first with DU mail.

When you have a contraction - any contraction - in the title of mail you're about to send, and you preview it, the preview will show a backslash inserted in front to the apostrophe.

That backslash will disappear when the mail is sent.

I started posting a message for this forum about this, and discovered that if a backslash is in the text of a message - I typed haven't with a backslash in front of the apostrophe to show what I meant - that backslash will disappear when it's previewed (from the text that was typed as well as the preview) and will not show up when it's posted.

I tried posting 4 backslashes together. Previewed it, and 2 disappeared. Previewed it again, and another one of the backslashes disappeared. And they also disappeared not just from the preview, but from the text I'd just typed. So I tried posting to the board without previewing (that OP has been self-deleted) and half the backslashes had vanished in what appeared on the board.

Btw, previewing a board post with a contraction in the title does not make a backslash appear before the apostrophe. That happens only with Mail previews.