Link with special characters break in 3.9

Link with special characters break in 3.9

by Peter Haasdijk -
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When I include a link in a book or label in 3.9 something goes wrong. For example, Moodle converts this url: "https://www.labby.nl/aanbod/7surprisenboarding-game" to "https://www.labby.nl/aanbod/7<img class =".

In 3.8 the url is fine. Is there anyone who knows what's going wrong here?

Thanks,
Peter

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Re: Link with special characters break in 3.9

by Leon Stringer -
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It's the Display Emoticons as Images filter. With 3.8 and earlier this was switched off by default. With new sites from 3.9 it's switched on (MDL-68563).

This filter is converting the sequence8, -, o uploaded as an image because filter_emoticon will change it to a surprised face.into a "surprised" face (as you can see in your post Moodle.org does this too).

You can turn this off to prevent the problem, either:

  1. turn the filter off from Site administration → Plugins → Filters → Manage filters and change the Active? setting for Display emoticons as images to either Disabled or Off, but available, or,
  2. go to Site administration → Plugins → Filters → Display emoticons as images and uncheck HTML format.

Presumably this is a bug, surely the filter shouldn't be applied to text inside HTML elements such as links.

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Re: Link with special characters break in 3.9

by Peter Haasdijk -

Learned something again today. I didn't get the hint ('surprise' in the tooltip).

Thank you so much,

Peter

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Re: Link with special characters break in 3.9

by Leon Stringer -
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It looks like there's an additional workaround for this: you can enclose the sequence you don't want converting in <span class="nolink">…</span> (MDL-42638). It's maybe for advanced users but it might help someone.

Assuming the default Atto editor is in use you do this by:

Clicking Show/hide advanced buttons in the toolbar (top-left)

Click the </> HTML button in the toolbar (bottom-right)

Then add the <span> element, e.g. for the above link:

<span class="nolink"><a href="https://www.labby.nl/aanbod/78-onboarding-game">Onboarding Game</a></span>

I will now test if this works on the forums too, this text should have no images: https://www.labby.nl/aanbod/78-onboarding-game

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