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Kittbee
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The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 10/14/2017
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Posts: 97,396
Posted: 2/23/2019 at 4:16 PM
Post #1
Whenever I'm on mobile, apostrophes and quotes disappear upon posting in the forums. Has anybody else had this issue, and if so how do you fix/ get around it?
So, when you submit text into a database, you have to clean it or else people can do things like post...
DROP * ");
And then all of your database tables are deleted.
Part of said scrubbing is turning !@#$(*& into their ASCII codes... such as... ' becomes '.
Well, at some point since the forums were remade and now, some people have decided to start using new ASCII codes for things like " and ' - specifically I've noticed, it's Apple devices.
Well, the forums use a built in PHP scrubbing function that I guess probably hasn't been updated for whatever new shenanigans Apple and maybe others have started using. Thus - they're being scrubbed.
Kittbee
Level 75
The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 10/14/2017
Threads: 164
Posts: 97,396
Posted: 2/23/2019 at 4:48 PM
Post #3
I have literally no idea what that means.
Somneli
Level 75
Hand of Destiny
Joined: 1/9/2016
Threads: 111
Posts: 3,600
Posted: 2/23/2019 at 4:58 PM
Post #4
I don't get it 100% either, but basically I think it means certain devices (Apple) are now using different codes for the same thing. But the code the site is based on doesn't use the different version, so they don't show up.
Either way, it is a known issue (not just affecting you), and I don't think there's a solution yet.
Kittbee
Level 75
The Kind-Hearted
Joined: 10/14/2017
Threads: 164
Posts: 97,396
Posted: 2/23/2019 at 4:59 PM
Post #5
Ah, okay.
Orcastration
Level 73
Fishy
Joined: 11/1/2018
Threads: 316
Posts: 33,413
Posted: 2/24/2019 at 12:07 AM
Post #6
Nope, I can do quotes on mobile.
I think.
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