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This is a simple question, that I can’t seem to find in the docs or forums - how does one turn off the default encoding of emails entered in the CP publish page?
(I’m *not* using any {encode} tags).

The reason behind the question is that users who have javascript turned off don’t see the email address, so I would like to avoid this accessibility issue.

Thanks!

Hm- it doesn’t encode them on mine- but I double checked.  The difference seems to be the setting in ‘Admin- Weblog Admin- Weblog Managment’- for each weblog, you can set whether links and email addresses are automatically converted to links.  If ‘no’- you get the plain email addy.  If yes- it’s a link and encoded.

So- first option is to switch that to ‘off’.  Second option- if you want to keep it linking but not encoding…  I see a preference for it that may work in the template parser, so we can give that a try if option 1 isn’t what you want.

Make sense?

Adam, you might be interested in the new $encode_type property of the Typography class.  With either a formatting plugin or an extension of the weblog entries tag, you could utilize this to not encode the emails in certain situations.  Or, if you never wanted the javascript to be used, you could simply edit your core.typography.php file and set $encode_type to “noscript”.

Thanks Robin and Derek for your responses. It seems almost impossible to get this issue right - there are always trade-offs between anti-spam, usability, ease of data entry, and accessibility. I appreciate your thoughts.