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"&" Ampersand symbol bugs mission descriptions in Arma menus
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Description

When publishing a mission to the Steam Workshop, if you add the "&" ampersand symbol to the mission description, it will bug the description when viewing in the Arma 3 mission selection screen.

For example, i name my mission "Tank Hunters - SP & 7 player coop" and upload it.

When viewing the mission in game, the description will stop after "Tank Hunters - SP ?". A question mark is placed where the error occurs. Once removing the ampersand symbol fixed the issue for all my workshop items.

Note: In steam, the “&” symbol works fine. Also when creating the workshop item, the title of the mission can have the "&" symbol without issues (See Screenshots). {F22814}

Details

Legacy ID
3882777291
Severity
None
Resolution
Duplicate
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Steam Workshop
Steps To Reproduce

Step 1: Create test mission to upload to steam
Step 2: Name the mission and place "&" ampersand in mission description.
I put in the description - "This is a test to see if the "&" ampersand symbol"

Step 3: Publish and Subscribe to your own mission so it appears in your game.
Step 4: Open up Scenarios and find mission
Step 4: Look at mission description and bam.

Hope that makes sense.

Additional Information

This was occurring on all my mission uploads. Once the ampersand was removed, resolved all issues.

Event Timeline

killenger edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
killenger set Category to Steam Workshop.
killenger set Reproducibility to Always.
killenger set Severity to None.
killenger set Resolution to Duplicate.
killenger set Legacy ID to 3882777291.May 7 2016, 5:29 PM

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