Cannot insert ">" (Greater than) character in titles

[RustyNova016]

I've come over a particular edge case on a video where the author discuss about &Option<T>and Option<&T> from Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7pZYP_iIE

The original title is "Choose the right option" which can be misinterpreted for being a philosophical or casual video instead of a programming one. And more, the video itself is biased toward Option<&T>. So I thought that "Prefer using Option<&T> over &Option" is a better title for it.

However, the ">" character isn't showing up, and I think this should be fixed, or try to add an escape character to prevent html insertion

[ajayyy]

We actually use greater than as a special character indicating that a word should not be have its formatting changed (>word). We chose this because YouTube official titles can't have greater than sign either.

It should be more clear in the UI though.

[DivineWinds]

Using confusable characters like ˂˃ (U+02C2, U+02C3) is always an option. They are even allowed in official titles.

[ajayyy]

Another option would be to allow \>, which would become >. Still would need a better way to indicate that to the submitter.

[DivineWinds]

To be fair anything would be better than the current situation where the extension effectively lifts the restriction YT placed on angle brackets... but only for the left one.

[DivineWinds]

Another option would be to allow \>, which would become >. Still would need a better way to indicate that to the submitter.

Just make sure we will be able to use literal \> in titles without needing zero-width spaces or something.

EDIT: Well, I just realised I was completely wrong about this one. Even if \\ is not an escape sequence we still get \\> -> \>. The case in which the \\ escape sequence would be required is if we want a backslash directly before a word with disabled formatting, that is: \\>word1 word2 -> \word1 Word2. Writing \> is still possible (\\\>), so nothing should break.

EDIT2: Actually, forget about the backslashes. What about using >> as an escape sequence like {{ and }} in format strings?

[ajayyy]

Right now > is only used at the start of a word, so another option is allowing it everywhere else. Would > at the start of the word be useful anywhere?

[DivineWinds]

Right now > is only used at the start of a word, so another option is allowing it everywhere else. Would > at the start of the word be useful anywhere?

Maybe on a video about greentext?

[ajayyy]

Went with the last solution for now since it's an easy change