is there a chance to prevent the forum from stripping off backslashes?

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I've seen this leading to a lot of confusion, and it is not only happening when using the [ php ] tags, in some cases they disappear in normal or [ code ] formatted text as well.

escaped singlequote:
\'

[jstarkey]

Trying double escaping:

It\\\'s all bout escaping, for me.

Hrrrm, I put three escapes before the apostrophe, but that didn't work either. I need to think about this one. I have to avoid hacking the board, which makes it tough.

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probably quite hard to debug.
with plain text, double escaping does work
\'

within php code, four escapes sometimes work (and sometimes not)

$string = 'I\\\\'m glad you are looking into that one';

oops, it's messing up the syntax highlighting 🙁

however, editing a post until you finally got all the backslashes into it can be quite hard.