Failure of CODE delimiters

[Steve Samuels]

Several times, I 've seen text apparently posted between CODE delimiters that does not display as code. For an example, see: post #5 here

[Nick Cox]

Sometimes other settings, particularly in my experience font settings, can interfere. I find that copy and paste within the forum can mess things up, as the copy and paste carries with it invisible settings; so I copy and paste into and then out of my favourite text editor and the hidden settings usually drop out. I don't understand why, but hey, it works for me.

[Richard Williams]

Google Chrome gives me an option to paste as plain text, so I always use it.

[Steve Samuels]

Thanks, Richard!
I've just downloaded the "Easy Copy Paste" extension to Chromium. Firefox has the "Copy Plain Text 2" extension that will also copy as plain text. I've now made plain text copying the default in both browsers. A wholesale font change inside CODE delimiters has never happened to me, but I do get some undesired symbol changes; for example, "<" is changed to "&lt;". Maybe plain text copy will fix this too.