Question FIX: html special characters appearing in subject and reply subject

Matias wrote:

Hmm. Interesting. You have found a bug!

Does this happen in somewhere else, too?

Will fix this for Kunena 1.0.10, which will be released soon.

wow.. that is so nice to hear of a 1.0.10 soon.. now i'm more than excited to see a better fix about this..

and yes it also happens in the categories >> table: jos_fb_categories >> field: name
..though i'm not seeing html special characters stored in the db, but those backslashes "\" preceeding every single and double quotes are present.. just like what i'm seeing now in "subject" of jos_fb_messages

@ bytebandit01:

You were amazingly close to the right answer, but both of the files needed small changes:

default/fb_write.html.php:
* remove html_entity_decode_utf8() for the Category Name as it is not encoded for html entities.

default_ex/message.php:
* We need to fix this another way: use plain $msg_subject in here (fix that another instance in line 106, too!)

default_ex/view.php:
* Remove line 1021: $msg_subject = htmlspecialchars($fb_subject_txt);
* For default theme: lines 1013-1026 from default_ex

This fix is better because of the message subject is being passed to Community Builder, too. Subject was meant to be cleaned in view.php

ayt.. can't wait to get to see it in action in 1.0.10.

@Matias, thanks for taking the time finding a better solution.. my hat's off to you good sir and to all of the devs