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Source-Code Samples in Blogger

Blogger makes it a bit hard to include properly formated source-code snippets in postings as it does not have a mode for entering raw pre-formatted text, which should not be molested by any of the further processing and rendering.

You can always use the raw HTML edit mode, but then all the all the html and xml-isms have to be escaped before pasting in the code sample. Fortunately there is a convenient online service at formatmysourcecode.blogspot.com which does just that. Here is an example of how the resulting output looks:

main() {
printf("hello, world");
}