end-of-comment markers converted to em-dash

[nickshanks]

Enter the following in a new post:

string1 <!-- string2
<ol/>
--> string3

You will get the output:

<p>string1 <!-- string2</p>
<ol/>
&#8211;> string3</p>

I don't know if other block-level elements suffer this same fate, but this is not even well-formed output!

[nickshanks]

Enter the following in a new post:

{{{string1 <!-- string2
<ol/>
--> string3}}}

You will get the output:

{{{<p>string1 <!-- string2</p>
<ol/>
&#8211;> string3</p>}}}

I don't know if other block-level elements suffer this same fate, but this is not even well-formed output!
}}}

[nickshanks]

trac is broken. i give up :P

[foolswisdom]

Confirmed bug
ENV: 2.1-beta r44759

Seems to gooble the -- whenever there is an html tag in the comment.

Setting milestone as 2.1 as it seems better to disable em-dashing then have this behavior.

[Nazgul]

Did some more testing. Although my patch fixes the problem it introduces others, so please ignore it.

Also closed #5073 as a duplicate of this bug.

[hakre]

It is not possible to fix those things in wordpress. I suggest closing this as wontfix.

If you do not think so, please provide a patch that is actually fixing the issue and not breaking anything else.

[solarissmoke]

#8912 - that one seems more active