&nbsp character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space

[ace2_heart]

If a title has an &nbsp character copy pasted or if the permalink has a &nbsp copy pasted
It will generate a permalink and slug with an space breaking some elements on the site

I generated an empty wordpress install without any plugins to test it, and it has the same problem

[audrasjb]

Works for me

[audrasjb]

Hi @ace2_heart thanks for the ticket and welcome to WordPress Trac,

I can't reproduce the issue on a fresh install (see screen capture above). I tested it in the permalink edition and in the title field and both are correctly escaping the non-breaking space. Can you provide us some further information to reproduce the bug please?

Cheers,

Jb

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @ace2_heart, thanks for the ticket!

  is supposed to be converted to a hyphen by sanitize_title_with_dashes()​.

Are you sure the issue still happens on a clean install with all plugins disabled and a default theme (Twenty Seventeen) activated?

[ace2_heart]

Hi, I created an empty install here, you can access it

• user: miguelesquirol
• password: miguelesquirol

​https://bug-testing-miguelesquirol.c9users.io/wp-ad- min

These are the pages created

• ​https://bug-testing-miguelesquirol.c9users.io/%e2%80%af-test/

• ​https://bug-testing-miguelesquirol.c9users.io/e%e2%80%af-securite/

The parmalink are as following:

/e -securite/

/ -test/

[ace2_heart]

Replying to audrasjb:

I just saw the demo you posted, instead of using the   text on the title, tried to copy/paste the actual space character.

e -securite

Hi @ace2_heart thanks for the ticket and welcome to WordPress Trac,

I can't reproduce the issue on a fresh install (see screen capture above). I tested it in the permalink edition and in the title field and both are correctly escaping the non-breaking space. Can you provide us some further information to reproduce the bug please?

Cheers,

Jb

[audrasjb]

Ok thanks for your answer.

So the issue happens with control marks like %e2%80%. Indeed, I'm able to reproduce this specific issue.

By the way, you are running WP 4.8.7 which is quite an old version. But the issue also happens in 4.9.8.

Thanks,

Jb

[ace2_heart]

So it's a really a bug? It's my first time submitting one.

Replying to audrasjb:

Ok thanks for your answer.

So the issue happens with control marks like %e2%80%. Indeed, I'm able to reproduce this specific issue.

By the way, you are running WP 4.8.7 which is quite an old version. But the issue also happens in 4.9.8.

Thanks,

Jb

[audrasjb]

I'd say it's more like an edge case, but yep, thank you for your ticket :)

[tsewlliw]

I'm hoping to submit a patch for this ticket in the next couple of days, I have seen it pop up in other places with other characters with a clear case for being sanitized out of URIs, such as the unicode line separator.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #47594, #47912.