< > characters in UTFtoHTML converter [FIXED?]

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:53 pm

Just a minor bug I encountered

"<" and ">" are not allowed in the titles as you get this message:

"ERROR: 6 - all non-ASCII characters in titles must be HTML-escaped, please use the UTF8 to HTML converter"

However if you use the converter, it doensn't give you the HTML code thing
i.e.

Code: Select all

> and <

respectively

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:35 pm

Well, converter changes only non-ASCII (higher than 127) symbols, so it works as expected. I don't think symbols like " or < > should be handled in converter, instead AniDB should change them, since they can appear in non-unicode titles as well.

analogued · Post by **analogued** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:06 am

rowaasr13, since you seem to be the coder of the utf8tohtml script... any idea about this bug? http://www.anidb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1514

sorry for hijacking the thread

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:14 am

rowaasr13 wrote:Well, converter changes only non-ASCII (higher than 127) symbols, so it works as expected. I don't think symbols like " or < > should be handled in converter, instead AniDB should change them, since they can appear in non-unicode titles as well.

100% agreed, anidb form fields are currently poorly escaped.
To be honest the utf8tohtml conversion should be run on all fields along with a symbol to html conversion (& " ' < >).

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:23 am

analogued wrote:any idea about this bug? http://www.anidb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1514

I'll look into that.

Post by **exp** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:56 am

might be fixed now.

BYe!
EXP