Apostrophes get slashed

Apostrophes get slashed

by Julia Osteen -
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When adding a new question, if there is an apostrophe in the question text a slash is added by moodle and then we get an error message saying the question could not be created.

We are using the latest version of Moodle on a Windows server running IIS. Last year we used a hosted solution and didn't have this problem but that was 1.8 on a Linux server.

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Re: Apostrophes get slashed

by Tim Hunt -
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You don't say which version you are using, nor which question type. This bug crops up occasionally, but I think all known instances of it have been fixed. If you can reproduce it, please give us specific details.
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Re: Apostrophes get slashed

by Julia Osteen -
We are using moodle 1.9.2 on a Windows server running IIS. Specifically, we've noticed this happening with an essay question and a multiple choice question.
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Re: Apostrophes get slashed

by Marty Watson -
We add a summary to the course page, the apostrophe's are turning into multiple slashes as well.
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Re: Apostrophes get slashed

by Tim Hunt -
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If this is happening somewhere like the course summary as well, then that suggests to me that it is a general problem on Windows-, rather than a quiz-specific problem. I just tested on my system (Linux/Apache/Postgres) and I don't see this problem.


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Re: Apostrophes get slashed

by Jonathan Harker -
Have you checked your PHP configuration has the "magic_quotes_gpc" flag set to "off"?

See the manual page for more information: http://php.net/magic_quotes
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Re: Apostrophes get slashed

by Luis de Vasconcelos -
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Setting "magic_quotes_gpc" to "off" worked for me on Windows Server 2003, IIS 6 and Moodle 1.9.3. Thanks.
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