[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10823: Bad handling of ampersand in post titles

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#10823: Bad handling of ampersand in post titles
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 Reporter:  Commeuneimage  |       Owner:                                                
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new                                           
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.0                                           
Component:  Formatting     |     Version:  2.8.4                                         
 Severity:  minor          |    Keywords:  ampersand the_title_attribute htmlspecialchars
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Comment(by mdawaffe):

 I cannot confirm 1.  the_title_attribute() does correctly turn ampersands
 into HTML entities for me.

 I can confirm 2.

 It comes from the following line in sanitize_title_with_dashes().

 {{{
 $title = preg_replace('/&.+?;/', '', $title); // kill entities
 }}}

 Fixing this could generate more bugs since the output is used in
 permalinks.

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