Proofreading service bugs with reserved HTML characters

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  peterstampfli · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 8:02 am

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  There is a nasty bug in the proofreading service occurring with reserved caracters. If I edit an article in text mode and write:

  for (i=0;i<theLimit;i++){
  }

  Then switching to visuell (german for visual) I get correctly:

  for (i=0;i<theLimit;i++){
  }

  But now I use the proofreading service by clicking on the abc-checkmark thing. This changes the post into:

  for (i=0;i
  }

  Note that the first line is truncated. This is terrible.
  Similarly, having in text mode:

  x<y errror

  I correctly get in visual mode:

  x<y errror

  Then the proofreading service changes this into:

  xerrror

  Note that it erases “<y “, if there is a typing error such as “errror”. The proofreading service should not do this.

  I hope you will be able to correct this bug. It makes WordPress difficult to use for discussing programming or mathematical ideas.

  Sincerely yous

  Peter Stampfli

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  peterstampfli · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 8:13 am

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  I see that the appearence of the bug report has changed. The first line in text mode is actually

  for (i=0;i<theLimit;i++){

  similarly the second part

  < errror

  I wonder what this will look like.

  Sincerely yours

  Peter Stampfli

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  peterstampfli · Member · Sep 15, 2013 at 8:27 am

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  There seems to be a related bug in the submission of comments and bugs. This makes it very difficult to report this problem.

  Note that I entered the reserved < sign in text mode correctly as “ampersand” followed by “lt;”.

  Yours Peter

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 16, 2013 at 2:06 pm

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  Hi Peter, thanks for reporting this issue.

  Because of how the Visual editor interprets the < symbol (even when written with the correct HTML), this kind of thing may happen. However, you should be able to proofread text that includes this character by using the “proofread” button in the Text editor.

  You can click on “proofread” to check your text, and it will underline any errors in red. Then, you can click “edit text” to make changes to the text. This will preserve special characters such as the < symbol.

  Please let me know how that works for you!