Bug: Apostrophes in page name cause truncation
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Please click in the box above and give a meaningful
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Your name:
Bil Kleb !
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Soks version:
1.0.3
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Your operating system:
Linux
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Your version of
ruby: 1.8.2
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Your browser:
Firefox
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And please describe the problem below:
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I just entered a page
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title” with a apostrope in it and the
title was truncated just before the apostrophe,
e.g.
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became
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Outside LaRC:
New Town Old before It
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upon saving.
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>I think the bug is because the page
title box is an
‘input’
field rather than a
‘textarea’
field and therefore cannot cope with apostrophes.
In the development version of Soks I’ve switched the templates to use one line text areas which seems to have solved this.
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>Can I just patch this in the appropriate view for the time being?
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>Should be ok.
You can see the patch I made at
http://www.counsell.org/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi/soks-testing/?c=annotate&p=20050831185523-46628-ca0c02923414843a1e5f8fb6b57732972c9f7210.gz !
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