Ticket #5140 (new defect)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

could we autocorrect broken utf-8 characters?

Reported by: Denis-de-Bernardy Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.9
Component: General Version: 2.3
Severity: normal Keywords: needs-patch
Cc:

Description

http://kaloyan.info/blog/wp-utf8-sanitize-plugin/

though, rather than having a screen to fix things up, it would be neat if WP automatically detected the broken characters and updated the posts

Change History

10/04/07 12:58:38 changed by Denis-de-Bernardy

  • summary changed from could we add something like this to the core? to could we autocorrect broken utf-8 characters?.

10/04/07 13:01:31 changed by Viper007Bond

Oh man oh man, what a handy plugin. I run into this problem ALL the time when dealing with database import / exports.

10/04/07 13:41:57 changed by Denis-de-Bernardy

  • milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.4.

me too, and it would really be nice if the autocorrect was built-in

10/04/07 13:50:00 changed by westi

  • keywords set to needs-patch.
  • milestone changed from 2.4 to 2.5.

Good idea.

Not sure this is core material - it should be a one time action.

We wouldn't want to do this at upgrade time as there could be a lot of posts to check.

04/16/08 23:10:19 changed by Denis-de-Bernardy

Imo, this is core material. upgrades should occur seemlessly, and this ticket might be indirectly related to a couple of other recent tickets that are related to charsets.

D.