Issue: Handling of special characters

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February 2, 2020 12:10 PM

expanserpb

Junior Member

Handling of special characters

Lots of issues with special characters.

In particular posting them into a new page, everything works.

Then when opening to edit the saved page some characters appear incorrectly and save in code format.

An example is Xenforo saving url's with a preview.

It works fine on the first save, but if I open a page to edit and resave save it I get this nonsense and it stops working:

[URL unfurl=&amp;quot;true&amp;quot;]https://chroniclesrp.net/threads/hot-air.1526/[/URL]

Other people getting the same with certain characters when posted in from google docs or word. (I'm trying to reproduce these)

Issue Details

Issue Number 5948

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category Unknown

Status Cannot Reproduce

Priority 3 - Loss of Functionality

Affected Version 4.1.0 Beta 4

Fixed Version (none)

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyAny

License TypePaid

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

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February 2, 2020 6:38 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

It was recently discovered that some characters are disrupted when opening the section editor (editing one section, instead of using the main Edit tab). I have not been able to make this happen any other way. If you have different experience, please attempt to reproduce your issue on the XenForo demo and provide further instructions for me to follow.

As for pasting content from Word, I might expect some characters not working due to it being a different character set (such as the Windows set) from XenForo (UTF-8). The only way to fix that would be to retype any affected characters into the editor, since they get converted at the browser level. Google Docs I'm not sure, since that should be UTF-8. If users are having trouble with specific file contents, you might ask them to supply you a simplified version of the file that, if you can reproduce, you can email to us to review.

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February 3, 2020 3:52 AM

expanserpb

Junior Member

Good point. I've had issues truing to reproduce this so many times from user feedback!

I'll play around with your demo site and see what I can do!

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Issue: Handling of special characters

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