[wp-hackers] The \ problem in posts

[Kristin]

I never had this problem before, but recently when I updated to a
newer nightly build and my database upgraded it inserted the
backslashes.  I don't really feel like going through and manually
updating every post.

Created a lot of broken images too :(

I'll try updating again when I get home from vacation and see if it works.  

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:44:47 -0500, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:32, Alex King wrote:
> > I'm not 100% sure, but I think a bug was fixed in 1.2 that kept quotes
> > from being double escaped, but there wasn't an accompanying upgrade
> > script that removed the extra backslashes from posts that already
> > existed in the database. The new code doesn't remove those like the old
> > code did, and adding a stripslashes() into the filters works great for
> > old posts but eats slashes in new posts because the new posts aren't
> > double-escaped.
> >
> > Have I got this right?
> 
> Right you are.  Current CVS should have this fixed.  Dozens of calls to
> stripslashes() have been removed.  We still have some more that need to
> be dealt with.  Double-escaping problems in old posts are fixed during
> upgrade.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jun 23, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > On 24 Jun, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >> There is a problem with wordpress eating the '\' character wherever
> > >> it appears in a post.
> > >>
> > >> I was wondering if there is any specific reason why the
> > >> convert_chars() function does not replace the \ character in posts
> > >> with &#092; , seeing as wordpress eats all the backslashes in posts?
> > >> (just like it replaces the & with &#38; )
> > >
> > > Why not just fix the bug? People have to put up with &#38; because "&"
> > > is special -- it begins (X)HTML entities. Why is "\" special?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matthew Thomas
> > > http://mpt.net.nz/
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Kristin Pishdadi
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