[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8912: wptexturize malforms HTML comments that contain HTML tags

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#8912: wptexturize malforms HTML comments that contain HTML tags
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 Reporter:  Otto42                   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect (bug)             |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Formatting               |     Version:  2.7
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh  |
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Changes (by nacin):

 * keywords:  has-patch needs-refresh needs-unit-tests => has-patch needs-
     refresh


Comment:

 We already "disable" wptexturize() when we experience certain shortcodes
 and tags. If we added support for HTML comments — disable texturize when
 we see `<!--`, re-enable it after `-->` — I think that'd solve our
 problems and shouldn't be too much of a nightmare to implement.

 An alternative, cheap fix would be to not do the `'--'` em-dash
 replacement if the next character is `>`. We'd never want an em-dash
 there.

 [17636] made this patch stale.

 Removing needs-unit-tests as some exist, though more would of course be
 nice.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8912#comment:33>
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