Special characters like "&" are well posted but not seen on the Friends application

[Xavier Guillot]

Hello,

I know Friends is just in the early beginning of development and that you work actively on it, so it's normal that lots of features from Gwibber are missing (like managing on Friends window someone's timeline, (un)-subscribe, having links automatically reduced with ur1.ca or others, perhaps multi-columns etc...), they will come one by one in the next weeks, so I won't report bugs from that.

But there are some "problems" that are real bugs. Here is one :

When I add a special character like "&" (symbol for "and") in the compose message window for Identica, no problem in the writing, it shows well and is counted as 1.

But after message has been sent, on Friends interface the "&" and all the characters after it don't appear on the message, this one is not complete.

It's only a problem of viewing in Friends, because on Identica the whole message is well posted without error (see screenshot with the 3 steps).

Thanks !

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

I wonder if the Qml is trying to interpret the & character as an HTML entity, and eating up the rest of the message because it finds no semicolon. I'll have to play with this a bit more.

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

On Twitter this time, all the message appears in Friends, but the "&" is replaced with ASCII code "&". Again, posted normally in Twitter, just problem in Friends UI.

Also, other bug on French special character with accent : "ê"

Both in Friends, and this time in Twitter, it appears as "^e" and not "ê".

No problem with "é", but for "ê"...

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Comment #3 is describing bug 1163687, let's keep this bug for the weird ampersand issues.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Does this still occur for you? On my machine (trusty) it is resolved.

I just looked at the raw messages like this (as described in this bugreport https://bugs.launchpad.net/friends/+bug/1261890):
bzr branch lp:friends
cd friends
./tools/debug_slave.py | grep "&amp"

I found some tweets that contain this. However, they were displayed fine in the friends-app (as expected & is valid HTML).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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