[wp-hackers] applying a filter to when a new post is made

[Owen Winkler]

> I was thinking of converting backslashes in the code
> sections(HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVA, SQL), as HTML entities, when using
> iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin, so that they are displayed as backslashes.
> Currently WordPress strips them from the post content, so obviously they
> don't appear in the post.

I haven't tried any of this, but couldn't you add a filter that converts
backslashes into entities before WordPress did it?  Or does WordPress make
this change to the post before the data is committed?  If it does, that's
bad.  Fundamentally, the post should go into the database "as typed",
shouldn't it?

Owen