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Quotes in thread titles turn into HTML-escaped entities when editing the title again

By Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer
    2019-04-24 19:10:54.298Z

    A thread starter had quotes in their title and I needed to change something else in their title.
    When I click edit, the title is showing me the & and " entities, but when resaving those will now get escaped so the displayed title ends up having the escaped entities in there.
    Haha it's difficult to explain - try for yourself :)

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      Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer
        2019-06-17 11:32:35.806Z

        I'm having troubles with this in a specific post:
        https://forum.soundflow.org/-753/how-to-copy-paste-volume-gain-and-clip-gain-automation-when-using-the-field-recorder-package

        I noticed it since I saw it looking weird when I quoted the thread on Facebook:

        Edit: This may have been the wrong issue to add this to. I didn't re-edit the title, it was only edited once upon creating of the thread.

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        1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2019-06-18 11:47:42.856Z2019-06-18 12:56:31.540Z

          when I quoted the thread on Facebook

          Seems I can reproduce: I copy-pasted that link into a new Facebook post, and in the preview over at Facebook, my new (& not yet submitted) FB post appears as copy &amp; paste instead of copy & paste. Maybe Facebook fetches the title from the html <title> tag — which looks like this:

          <title>How to copy &amp;amp; paste volume gain and clip gain automation when using the field recorder package</title>

          meaning, I seem to have double escaped the & in the title text, right? The title text shoud be just as follows:

          <title>How to copy &amp; paste ...

          Edit: Yes this is an a bit different issue, anyway, I'll reopen this and fix, I think I found the buggy line

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          1. CChristian Scheuer @chrscheuer
              2019-06-22 17:16:34.424Z

              Yes that's the exact problem :)

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          3. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2019-04-30 14:00:39.784Z

            Thanks for reporting. Will fix. B.t.w. this has annoyed me too from time to time. I think the problem is that Talkyad unnecessarily doulble-sanitizes the title.

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              Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer
                2019-05-06 04:28:35.993Zreplies toKajMagnus⬆:

                FYI, this also appears in document titles (eg. &quot; ) - may be nice to fix as part of updating document titles to match the current thread :)

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                1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2019-05-08 05:42:55.970Z

                  Ok thanks for the tips. I think I've fixed that, + this topic, in my current work-in-progress Git branch. The fix will be available ... probably at the end of next week. (Together with some other things that require a bit more testing.)

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                  1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2019-05-18 10:22:13.374Z

                    @chrscheuer This should now have been fixed over at your site.

                    (Self hosted servers will auto upgrade in a few days.)

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                    1. @KajMagnus marked this topic as Done 2019-05-18 10:22:21.166Z.
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                      Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer
                        2019-05-18 10:26:59.211Zreplies toKajMagnus⬆:

                        Confirmed fixed!

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                        1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2019-05-18 10:27:34.016Zreplies tochrscheuer⬆:

                          Ok thanks for verifying :- )

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                          1. @KajMagnus marked this topic as Started 2019-06-18 12:56:42.261Z.
                          2. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2019-06-18 12:57:21.057Z

                            Ok so the <html><head><title> tag double escapes things, so if pasting a link into Facebook, & becomes &amp;, .... fixing ...

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