[1359] Certain Characters in Group Announcements appear incorrectly.
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BluWizard
Specifically, using the ' in a word causes it to show it as a Unicode or something instead. So something like "Nardo's Guild" will appear as "Nardo's Guild" instead. See the screenshot attached for an example.
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Hackebein
DAG-XR
Hackebein Fixed for me.
syncpulse
Just ran into this one today. I will note that it only occurs in the actual notification. When viewing the group announcement directly (not in the notification box), it's fine. Looking at the API responses on the website this appears to be due to HTML entities encoded for notifications responses, but not on group posts.
This incorrect behavior also manifests on the android app. Don't know about the PC client as I'm unable to test that right now.
This should be a pretty easy one to fix and I don't know how something like this can still be open since October. Please just show this information to your web/API staff, they should know what to do. The repro is literally just post an announcement with an apostrophe in the title.
MisutaaAsriel
This is still an issue, nearly 5 months later.
Issue is due to "escaped" characters not being reinterpreted.
&[x]; is an HTML escape/entity syntax. It is a way of representing characters either by an entity name (e.g.
is a non-breaking space
), or by an identifier of some sort (e.g. '
or '
for an apostrophe).The problem is, specifically, that certain characters are being converted into HTML entity representations (likely for safety or security reasons;
input-sanitization
), but they are not correctly being re-interpreted
as their original forms when displayed in a text container which (presumably) does not
support HTML entities, such as the group/announcement title within VRChat or on the VRChat website (pictured).Note that, in this case,
'
is an apostrophe's decimal
representation, and not its true, hexadecimal
, unicode designation ('
).
Hackebein
HK
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HK
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Hackebein
HK
closed
While some quotation mark variants may be filtered out, the standard single quote (apostrophe) does not seem to be filtered in any of our internal testing. So - if there are issues with other symbols, or you are still experiencing this issue, please open a new ticket.
Skuld
HK: except I have been using standard single quotes. Something converts them to a weird non-ansi one. This happens everywhere in the VRC UI. This should be reopened!
HK
Skuld: Alright, I've reopened the case, can you give exact reproduction steps - where are you entering the announcement, etc. Also, before hitting 'send' on an announcement that would do this, can you copy and paste the text out of the box and send it here? It may be your quote is being converted somewhere before it gets to us.
Skuld
HK:
- Open VRChat.com
- Navigate to Group
- Navigate to Settings
- Correct name (typing on a US-102 Keyboard with no IME on, ')
- save to apply
Testing:
- Navigate to Announcement
- send an announcement
- see UI show strange characters instead of the correct one.
It currently seems fixed for the groups tab in notifications, however the pop notification(s) (The small square one and the base one that appears briefly on the hud) are both displaying incorrectly
HK
Skuld: Thanks, I was to reproduce using the steps provided.
Skuld
It seems to affect more than just group announcements. A whole pass on group related things might be needed.
I keep getting weird $user_name$ has left $group_name$ or something like that messages.
No idea what user or group, but I do see the users pfp.
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Tony_Lewis
What kind of info do you need??
(as you already aware that some symbols cause this issue as it seems from merged canny)
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