Well, the Substation Alpha(.ssa) and Advanced Substation Alpha (.ass) formats uses some override tags to format the texts, for example:
To do a line break we use \N
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First line\NSecond line
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Normal text {\b1}bold text{\b0} normal text again.
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Normal text {\i1}italic text{\i0} normal text again.
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Normal text {\b1\i1}italic and bold text{\b0\i0} normal text again.
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{\an8}This whole line will appear on the top of the screen.
http://docs.aegisub.org/manual/ASS_Tags
So, almost everyone who uses the Substation format, always use those tags and it's one of the major point on using this subtitle format, mainly for the anime fansubbing community.
Ok, now that the tags are explained, let's go to the bug here on OpenSubtitles.
The problem is that when we download any Substation subtitle here on OS, the file is parsed by some way that breaks those tags.
On some cases, like on \N and in \i, it only "eat" the backslash:
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First lineNHere should be the second line, but the tag has been broken
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bla bla bla {i1}zzzz{i0}.
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Normal {1}this was to be bold{0}
So, there's a problem that make the backslash transform itself when we download the subs, but the preview on the subtitle page show the subtitles correctly, with all the backslashes and stuff (but with some encoding problems on accented characters, like á and í etc).
Well, that's it.
Thank you for reading and sorry for my probably broken english. ;)