Comment on Hey I'm trying to abbreviate here

WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Something somewhere is running an htmlspecialchars() or equivalent on whatever you input, probably as an attempt at “sanitizing” the text entered in titles/posts/comments. You know, to keep me from just inserting into a comment and have it to something naughty to anyone who loads the page.

  I’m certain these are being stored in the database as an &, but they’re not being decoded back into an ampersand character upon display.

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  • WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I know, just sanitize it again. .Replace(“&”, &), Regex.Remove(amp;), if(.Contains(“amp;”))

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The same with < and < please

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    • Black616Angel@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      No. This is just escaped html. So you can just unescape it like every other html.

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    • AnotherRyguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Please be kidding lol

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  • onion@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Theres a git issue on this

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• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  &

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