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Inputting special characters (SMP) in the title field
There seems to be a change in behaviour in recent releases where special characters – like trigrams (e.g. ☲), tetragrams and other esoteric things, part. in the SMP (supplementary multilingual plane) – can now be used in the <txp:title /> field. In previous Textpattern releases, this would cause no end of pain (characters swallowed up and some more (an old post of mine). I seem to recall some database or security issues as one of the reasons behind this.
Current Txp 4.6 dev builds have no such problems anymore – those characters are correctly handled (except in the URL-only field, but that is a whole other matter).
The question: is that intentional ?
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Re: Inputting special characters (SMP) in the title field
phiw13 wrote #298935:
The question: is that intentional ?
Yes, please follow this discussion for details and report back if anything goes west.
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Re: Inputting special characters (SMP) in the title field
Thanks for the reference. So far things works quite well: putting a ☲ in the Title, Body, Excerpt fields, or the keywords and /or the description fields works well, renders correctly both on the public side and the atom feed. I went through some old (2010, which triggered the above noted forum thread) posts of a site of mine and re-saved them without any issues either.
So, as far as I’m concerned, please continue to go ahead with this :-). It is possible I’ll use that kind of characters again in the near future.
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