Closed Bug 488957 Opened 16 years ago Closed 14 years ago

&lang and &rang are not escaped

Categories

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Product:
support.mozilla.org
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: Noah, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090401 Firefox/3.0 Build Identifier: In the forums, posting [&lang] and [&rang] inside links produces a unicode character confusing users. Visit this thread to see testcase: https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=3&comments_parentId=330915 Reproducible: Always
This is because &lang is a valid HTML entity for left angle bracket thus links with &lang=en-US show up as 〈=en-US because the & isn't escaped into &
Component: Forum → General
QA Contact: forum → general
Summary: Tikiwiki parsing &lang and &rang in links as HTML entities → &lang and &rang are not escaped
CCing people for attention.
Not sure if I understand what the problem is, or what kind of attention is needed?
Posting links with &lang query params in kitsune works just fine.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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