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Opened 20 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#2015 closed defect (bug) (invalid)

Solves "smartquote" formatting issue

Reported by: hayfordoleary's profile hayfordoleary Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.0
Component: Administration Keywords: reporter-feedback
Focuses: Cc:

Description

When an item is copied from Microsoft Word -- or any app that automatically creates smart quotes -- WordPress prints the crude symbol into the HTML, causing encoding issues.

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formatting.txt​ (685 bytes) - added by hayfordoleary 20 years ago.
The basic dealio. Pardon the poor Trac formatting.

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Change History (18)

@hayfordoleary
20 years ago

The basic dealio. Pardon the poor Trac formatting.

#1 @abhay
19 years ago

  • Keywords smartquotes tinymce bg|has-patch added

#2 @davidhouse
19 years ago

  • Keywords bg|needs-testing added

#3 @Nazgul
18 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added; tinymce bg|has-patch bg|needs-testing removed
  • Milestone set to 2.4

Patch is stale.

#4 follow-up: @pishmishy
18 years ago

I'm tempted to close this ticket as i believe the issue to be larger than just smart quotes. "WordPress allows users to insert text which isn't supported by the current character set" may be more accurate :-)

#5 in reply to: ↑ 4 @santosj
18 years ago

Replying to pishmishy:

I'm tempted to close this ticket as i believe the issue to be larger than just smart quotes. "WordPress allows users to insert text which isn't supported by the current character set" may be more accurate :-)

Wow, you are talking extreme difficulty.

#6 @santosj
18 years ago

Actually.

  1. This is easily solved by switching to UTF-8 encoding. I've tested this and know that it works. I have a site that uses WordPress (2.3.1) and has no problem with people copying Word Documents.
  1. If I didn't want them to submit those characters, I would easily write a plugin that strips out those characters and replace them. However, I don't wish for this to be the normal behavior, since well, if I do have UTF-8 encoding, then it won't make a difference to me. However, I didn't then yeah, I would want those characters stripped out.

#7 @pishmishy
18 years ago

I'm in complete agreement with you there. WordPress should make sure that the contents of a post are valid characters in the current character set, or it can be left to plugins.

I think we should close this ticket and leave it to someone to raise that as another ticket if it's something they care about.

#8 @santosj
18 years ago

Correction.

ISO-8859-1 automatically converts the smart quotes over, go figure. There might be some relevance of this ticket after all. I'll go over and try to create a patch, but this field is out of my reach, so I'm unsure how successful I'd be.

#12 @thee17
17 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6

#13 @Denis-de-Bernardy
16 years ago

  • Keywords smartquotes removed

wonfix?

Related: #8285

#14 @hakre
16 years ago

  • Keywords reporter-feedback added; needs-patch removed

I am unable to reproduce that at all. Either wontfix or worksforme. Anyway, a step by step instruction on how to reproduce is missing. What are "smart quotes"? I think this term is pretty misleading.

#15 @scribu
16 years ago

  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Status changed from new to closed

Probably not current anymore.

#16 @scribu
16 years ago

  • Milestone 2.9 deleted

This ticket was mentioned in ​Slack in #accessibility by rianrietveld. ​View the logs.
10 years ago

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