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Hello,

I have a blogging website on which Expression Engine 1.5.2 is installed.  People can post comments on the posts I make.  So far so good, nothing special in here.  And it works quite good when they post a regular comment.

But when somebody wants to post a comment with a special character like ‘é’, the comment doesn’t show up.  Not in the front-end, neither in the back-end.  Is there anybody who could help me with this problem?

Michael

Ah- encoding issues.  The bane of my existence!  The whole comment gets wiped out- correct?  I’ve seen similar issues due to server quirks.  I think what I’d recommend is upgrading to 1.6.0- I know some tweaks have been made in various 1.5.2 versions to deal with said quirks.  I can’t swear the upgrade will fix it, but it will get us all on the same page.  I suspect it’s the xss cleaning that’s stripping things out.

If you want to confirm that, try putting this in a template.  Create a test one, turn php ‘on’- add the below:

<?php
global $REGX; 
$funky = 'This has a funky e in it: é - neato!';

$out = $REGX->xss_clean($funky);
echo 'Funky: '.$funky;
echo '

';
echo 'Funky clean: '.$out;
?>

Save it, then view the rendered template.  If the ‘Funky clean’ version is blank?  We’ll know that’s the problem.  But for now?  I think I’d go ahead and upgrade- see if that does the trick.

I upgraded to EE 1.6 and the commenting works fine now.  People can post comments with special characters.
However, when I go to the admin of EE, these special characters are not shown in the list of comments for one of my posts.  It displays squares instead of é or è.

Is there a solution for this - not so urgent problem - too?