TextChannel:DisplaySystemMessage() does not escape RichText characters

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#1

When calling TextChannel:SendAsync(), RichText characters like angle brackets < > or ampersands & are escaped. You can see this when printing TextChatMessage.Text in a TextChannel.OnIncomingMessage callback function:

textChannel.OnIncomingMessage = function(tcm)
	print(tcm.Text)
end
textChannel:SendAsync("Hello <")

Output:

Hello &lt;

This does not occur with TextChannel:DisplaySystemMessage(), and will mess up any RichText formatting done in the OnIncomingMessage callback (or from within the method’s message argument).

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Read the code and reproduce the issue with the following .rbxm file. Ensure game:GetService("TextChatService").ChatVersion is set to TextChatService.

DisplaySystemMessage doesnt escape RichText tag characters.rbxm (1.4 KB)

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#2

Looks like this error pops up sometimes when you test, even if TextChatService.ChatVersion is set to TextChatService.

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Just retry until the error doesn’t appear.

#3

Thanks for the report! We’ll follow up when we have an update for you.

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#4

I have also been running into this issue. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

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