Using An Em-Dash in an Event Title Puts 2014 into URL String

[Nat Katin-Borland]

Here' s strange one for you.

If you enter the punctuation mark em dash ('—'), a long dash into the title of a KARL event, then it seems to add the year 2014 into the URL string, even though the word 2014 is not in the title.

Communications is complaining that this is confusing because these are upcoming events. The change just seems to happen in the URL, not in the actual title. I have tested this and it does in fact seem to happen.

You can see some examples here:

https://karl.soros.org/offices/files/network-events/ny-2014-organizing-against-religious-violence-in-pakistan-a-conversation-with-jibran-nasir/

https://karl.soros.org/offices/files/network-events/ny-2014-free-markets-vs.-human-rights-does-india-have-to-make-a-choice/

Can you take a look?

Thanks,
Nat

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

This actually could happen with any content, since it happened in the make_name function that changes the title into a string to be used in the URL. The 2014 was not a year, but the hex number for the unicode character for the dash. Added it to our transalation table to avoid displaying anything in this case.

[Nat Katin-Borland (nborland)]

This still seems to be an issue: https://karlstaging.gocept.com/communities/nats-community-of-one/blog/a-piece-of-text-with-the-em-dash-2013-here-it-is/

You can see the 2013 in the URL for the post above when the post title had an em dash.

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

Right, forgot about the ndash. Added.