single quotes in meta descriptions display as '

[ALEXCNX]

Hello,

 

I have entered products meta descriptions with single quotes, e.g. Buy 'My Products'

 

When I am checking at the source code I see that they display with their HTML number equivalent, e.g. Buy 'My Products'

 

How come?

[vekia]

string are escaped for safety purposes and to fix potential problems with "description" string construction

take a look:

 

<meta name='description' content='this is description'>

now take a look how it will look like with single quotes

 

<meta name='description' content='this is 'my text' in description'>

 

as you can see it can brake up syntax of the content='' param, it will generate a lot of troubles.

 

<meta name='description' content='this is 'my text' in description'>

 

 

this is why strings are escaped there

 

 

[ALEXCNX]

Thanks Vekia!

 

Entering 'my text' also displays 'my text'

 

However, curly quotes display properly. Would these be an issue ?

[vekia]

it's not an issue ;-)

this is feature to avoid bad html syntax

[ALEXCNX]

Ok I will replace them with curly quotes then. I wish I had known (and checked) this earlier as it's going to take me 16 years to replace them all.

 

Thanks again :-)