Bug report: Special characters in Title cause plugin to save url instead

  • Resolved fcrick

    (@fcrick)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hello

    While trying to save a link title containing special/foreign characters (for example —), the plugin will silently replace the title with the url instead. The editor may only realize that this has happened when reviewing the link list later.

    The same problem is apparent when exporting a link list containing special/foreign characters. Reimporting the same link list, will cause some titles to be replaced by the url (again without warning).

    Suggested behavior: Provide support for the full UTF-8 characterset (for editing and import/export). Alternatively, warn the user or do not allow the user to save titles with non-supported characters.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    Sorry for the late response. To be sure, are you talking about trying to add links with special characters from the admin section, or about visitors trying to add links through a user submission form?

    I just ran tests with the special character you provided above, and the link was created properly using either technique. I was also able to export links properly, including the special character. Could it be that your MySQL database is not configured to accept these characters? Have you tried putting special characters in the title of posts and pages and seeing if you are able to save these correctly?

    Thread Starter fcrick

    (@fcrick)

    Problem was while entering/editing links in admin backend and while re-importing a previously exported file.

    Weird, I cannot reproduce at this point (in admin backend) and will close the case.

    Thanks.

    PS, for your reference, my collations are (standard, did not change anything):

    | wppfs_linkcategorymeta | meta_id | NULL |
    | wppfs_linkcategorymeta | linkcategory_id | NULL |
    | wppfs_linkcategorymeta | meta_key | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_linkcategorymeta | meta_value | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_id | NULL |
    | wppfs_links | link_url | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_name | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_image | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_target | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_description | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_visible | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_owner | NULL |
    | wppfs_links | link_rating | NULL |
    | wppfs_links | link_updated | NULL |
    | wppfs_links | link_rel | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_notes | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links | link_rss | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_id | NULL |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_second_url | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_telephone | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_email | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_visits | NULL |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_reciprocal | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_submitter | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_submitter_name | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_submitter_email | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_textfield | utf8_general_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_no_follow | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_featured | latin1_swedish_ci |
    | wppfs_links_extrainfo | link_manual_updated | latin1_swedish_ci |

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