Underscores stripped from username

[ghost]

See this summoning comment:

u/nwordcountbot u/ManWithNoName

In wordcounterbot's response

Thank you for the request, comrade.

u/ManWithNoName has not said the N-word.

, underscores were stripped from the reddit username.

It's not clear to me if this happened only while formatting the output, or if the lookup erroneously happened with the underscoreless username.

I would expect the usernames to match between request and response.

[alashow]

Damn. IIRC, I'm rendering comment markdown to html then extract text for pre-processing comment text. Underscores probably get *Lost in Translation*, as markdown renderer doesn't know about reddit usernames.

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[alashow]

I confirmed the issue is coming from rendering markdown. I don't have any solutions yet. A solution would probably involve modifying/extending markdown library to recognize and ignore reddit usernames, which I don't wanna do rn:)