Cyrillic issue – plugin converts characters to unicode

Hi,

thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.

This is caused by interference by another plugin or your theme. They use the stripslashes() PHP function in the wrong way.

Can you therefore please try again after temporarily deactivating all other plugins and after switching to a WordPress default theme like Twenty Sixteen? That way, we can find what’s causing this.

Regards,
Tobias

Thanks for the answer, Tobias. Unfortunately the site with a lot of visitors and I can not on it conduct actions on deactivating plug-ins.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mestovstrechi.

I found stripslashes in 2 template files.

I tried to switch the template to standard – the problem remained.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mestovstrechi.

Hi,

I’m afraid that this will be the only real option. Alternatively, you could try setting up a copy site with the same plugins, etc.

The error is pretty clear. The Unicode characters are internally saved as \u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442. If then some other code uses stripslashes(), the \ are removed and these entities can not be converted back to an actual character.

Can you post those two lines?

Regards,
Tobias

I understand and I’m ready for some small experiments. I hope the site does not suffer. I entered this code \u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442 into a plain text editor and got the following: u0442u0435u0441u0442.

You’re right ??

More thanks for the help. I found the reason.
Plugin – Outbound Link Manager.

Hi,

great! Good to hear that you found the cause!

Best wishes,
Tobias

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