@catacaustic this is not true as evidenced by my example.
EDIT:
I’ve found the reason. It’s done for backwards compatibility with magicquotes. Basically, instead of demanding all plugins update their code, they have decided to slash all the data.
A very regrettable decision.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18322
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This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Maštarija.