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This bug was closed 2/11/2017: Should be fixed.

[SITE] Fix HTML Entity Processing on Profiles

7 years ago

I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. The system seems to misprocess or overcompensate for HTML character entities when it takes them from posts and storygame descriptions and you end up with a bunch of ampersands, numbers, and semicolons on your profile where some other character ought to be, ' instead of an apostrophe probably being the most common. (If I had to guess, I'd say it's taking what's already HTML and then double encoding it into more HTML.) Since this keeps getting shrugged off as "not being a bug", maybe this "feature" can be removed?

[SITE] Fix HTML Entity Processing on Profiles

7 years ago

This belongs in B&P.

[SITE] Fix HTML Entity Processing on Profiles

7 years ago
I"m guessing the previous reasons for Seth and others shrugging it off were motivated by something like 'We can't do anything to fix this...therefore, not a bug?'

Those nonsense characters in storygame descs have always bugged the crap out of me, here's hoping this glorious new age we're in means 3J can finally tackle them.