Special characters encoding to HTML in Text Input cells

[Wei Wang]

I noticed that when you try inputting a special character (e.g., “ double quote) into a table, the character is automatically encoded to HTML (&#34) when it is stored in the cell. The cell looks fine but when you click into it, it will show the HTML encoding instead of the actual character:

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[Ada Trajer]

Added to our issues backlog (est. Dec 2020 release)

[Eric Steingrabe]

This also occurs in multi line comments where the end user enters a line break for bullet points. line breaks are then encoded as the HTML tag &#10 which causes issues when exporting this to excel. This was raised by our end users.

[Ada Trajer]

Issue has been fixed in 2021.11 FP2 release

[Scott Wiltshire]

Removing milestone: 2.5 (automated comment)