Bad escape sequence in string error
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Using your fantastic Q&A pages, love it. However, since last update I‘m getting:
“Bad escape sequence in string”
errors in Google Search Console. The issue seems to be that your plugin started adding a / after every ‘, example:‘there aren’t any’ becomes ‘there aren\’t any’ in the code that is seen in Google ,although I did not manually add the /.
Are you aware of this issue? It breaks the functionality and rich snippets stop appearing (which the point of all this).
I thought I let you know.
Example:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wA_WRnHsuGnBfzMcdlvcrVGNNJ6JwrUI/view?usp=sharing
Sincerely,
SimonThe page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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It shows up in the source code as well:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gg1gLYVya5TESIDEfZfsPd_RN5MfA3DP/view?usp=sharing
Looking at the source code of this page (if you want to check it yourself, a second example):
https://simonsblogpark.com/onlinegambling/simons-south-africa-gambling-and-online-betting-guide/Yes, I use these:
[accordions load=”1″]
[accordion title=”FAQ section”]
I have around 180 FAQs so I will wait for the fix, there is no way I’m going to “– change the single quotes?in the answers” for every single one of them… (I also honestly don’t know what that means)
Thank you for taking this serious and working on it, I know this is a free plugin, we are very fortunate that you help us, much appreciated.Thanks, I know what a single quotation mark is (but you did the right thing by explaining, you never know, no worries).
What I don’t get is:
“change the single quotes in the answers” to what? Delete them? that creates typos, causes SEO issue like crazy, the ranking of the website would suffer, out of the question, this is my livelihood (for now).
I assume this is what you meant:
“You can also use another single quote on the mentioned example page and test if it works then.”
So like this? Instead of:
“No, they don’t, charging an entry fee is not customary in the country (as is the case in most of Africa).”
to
“No, they don”t, charging an entry fee is not customary in the country (as is the case in most of Africa).”
Like this? Or another font type?Again, typo, SEO issues, not going to do it, also 180*30 questions, not happening. ?? (I have search and replace but I obviously use single quotation marks in the text above as well, so it does not help here).
I only use one type of font.
“The problem seems to be the different types of single quotes combined with your theme and font.”
I only use one font type in the main body of a page, not using multiple on purpose. It just causes issues with WPRocket’s CSS merging, and pagespeed suffers, SEO issues again, makes no sense. But plugins add their own fonts and CSS codes, nothing I can do about it.
If I find out what specifically causes it I will let you know. I’m intrigued, and I want to help to make this fantastic plugin even better, I will run some tests (btw. I’m attending a junior Java developer course on the weekends for a year now, besides managing the blog, so I’m interested in this professionally as well, as a fledgling coder ;), although this is not Java ).
Happy New Year btw (I’m going to work tomorrow as well so feel free to message me here, no rest for the wicked ?? )Maybe this helps:
I added:
No, they <strong>don’t</strong>,
and this made it even worse, this was the result:
“No, they <strong>don\’t</strong>,
And:
Players <em>don’t</em>
made this:
Players <em>don\’t</em>
Adding another single quotation mark:
don”t (double single quotation marks)
becomes:
don\’\’t
And don”t (one regular quotation mark) just makes the entire answer disappear.
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