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issueid=27104 Wed 7th Jan '09 12:21pm
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Advanced Search - problems with special character in forum titles

Hello there!

I just upgraded my test board to 3.8.0 RC2 and I think I found a problem with special characters in forum titles at the advanced search.

It doesn't display the quotes found in the name of the forum but it displays the HTML-code instead.

die Mercedes Benz „Pagode“
The first screenshot is from 3.7.5 (my live board), the second one is from 3.8.0 RC2.
Issue Details
Project ImpEx
Category Miss parsed content
Status Unconfirmed
Priority 8
Affected Version Unknown
Fixed Version (none)
Users able to reproduce bug 1
Users unable to reproduce bug 1
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)

Wed 7th Jan '09 1:02pm
Former vBulletin Developer
 
I can't reproduce this? What is in the database for that forum?
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Wed 7th Jan '09 1:57pm
Senior Member
 
vBulletin 3.7.5
forum.title -> die Mercedes Benz & #0132;Pagode& #0147; (without the spaces)
forum.title_clean -> doesn't even exist.


vBulletin 3.8.0 RC2
forum.title -> die Mercedes Benz & #0132;Pagode& #0147; (without the spaces)
forum.title_clean -> die Mercedes Benz „Pagode“
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Thu 8th Jan '09 6:37am
Former vBulletin Developer
 
ok title_clean was added in 3.5.0 beta 2, are you sure its missing?

I'm unsure how the entities get double encoded, as we use htmlspecialchars_uni in the forum dm, can you try editing it and removing the extra amp and see what happens?
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Thu 8th Jan '09 7:36am
Senior Member
 
Sure, I'll update my post with the new information. :)

Bild 1.png -> 3.7.5
Bild 2.png -> 3.8.0 RC2

I now removed the & from forum.title_clean but the problem still exists.


Ok, I think I found the solution: I edited the forum in question and saved it without a change. Now the database looks like shown in attachment 'Bild 3.png'. :)
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Thu 15th Jan '09 7:19am
Former vBulletin Developer
 
I just noticed that the schema order between the 3.7.5 and 3.8.0 RC2 DBs is different, so that would indicate that it's not simply an upgrade.

How'd you get that data into 3.8 then? ImpEx? There's nothing that would change that data between 3.7 and 3.8.
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Thu 15th Jan '09 11:04am
Senior Member
 
I used Impex several months ago but I was using 3.7.2 or even an older version. :)
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Fri 16th Jan '09 8:14am
Former vBulletin Developer
 
This sounds like an ImpEx bug to me then, so I'll move this to that project.
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Fri 16th Jan '09 4:35pm
ImpEx Developer
 
Which if the images are which ? Which is an imported one and which is newer ?

I'd need to know the source system as well.

Though to fix this, update your forum titles and descriptions and save them in the forum manager.
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