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gchet
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Actually, this isn’t even working in code view now.
Is anyone else having this problem?
We had the same problem. I am pretty sure that this is a hard-to-find but nasty bug.
I spent a couple of hours debugging the other day and finally figured out what our problem was. When you double-space after a sentence, WordPress tries to save that formatting by inserting a non-breaking space character for that character set. In some (all but the default?) character sets, it doesn’t work and breaks.
First of all, I would think that WordPress would put in the html and let the browser handle it rather than using a specific character that could cause any number of problems like this.
Second of all, even though it does use a weird character in a non-standard character set, WordPress’ database input filtering functions should be able to handle it, not choke and lose every character after one it doesn’t recognize.
So for you:
1) Is WordPress set up to use a character set other than the default?
2) Do you double-space after each sentence?
Ok, I seem to have just found a bug with this WordPress forum as well.
I typed “ampersand-n-b-p-s-semicolon” and rather than escaping it (which would be “safe” and “correct”) it just printed out the html (a non-breaking space).
More info on the issue. It appears (as expected) that not only non-breaking spaces, but most “special” characters cause problems. We have the same issue with the directional apostrophes as well.
The forum doesn’t have a bug. It has instructions below how to post code: between
