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    Fatal errors with special chars in descriptions

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      _igor_
      last edited by

      I found out that using special chars in description-fields results in strange behaviour:

      Entering chars like umlauts in the description-fields of aliases, they are not shown later.
      Entering umlauts in the description-fields of added Port-aliases, config will be immediately reset to an older version. This is really fatal.
      Same with hosts as alias.

      I added this as a bug report: http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1168

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Most description fields are CDATA protected and not prone to this. As I mentioned in the ticket you opened, the detail field of an alias (the per-entry descriptions) aren't protected in this way, though they should be.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          I committed a couple of fixes for this. It should be OK now on snapshots dated after this post.

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            _igor_
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            I'll try and report back! Thanks for that quick resolution!

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