Bug #1168: Some description fields don't accept umlauts - pfSense - pfSense bugtracker

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Bug #1168

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Some description fields don't accept umlauts

Added by igor igor almost 14 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

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Target version:

Start date:

01/06/2011

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% Done:

100%

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Affected Version:

2.0

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Description

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.

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Updated by Jim Pingle almost 14 years ago

The per-entry description field, internally called "detail", is not CDATA escaped like the main description field so it cannot take characters that are invalid in XML.

As for the main descr field, it seems on that page we use:

$alias['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");

Which seems to strip out certain chars, like those with umlauts. Not sure why we only use that in certain places (it only shows up 9 times in 5 pages).

etc/inc/easyrule.inc:169:               $alias['descr']   = mb_convert_encoding("Hosts blocked from Firewall Log view","HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/firewall_aliases_edit.php:287:            $alias['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/firewall_aliases_edit.php:345:            $pconfig['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/interfaces_groups_edit.php:96:            $ifgroupentry['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/interfaces_groups_edit.php:159:           $pconfig['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/interfaces_qinq_edit.php:145:             $qinqentry['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/interfaces_qinq_edit.php:203:             $pconfig['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/services_igmpproxy_edit.php:101:          $igmpentry['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");
usr/local/www/services_igmpproxy_edit.php:117:          $pconfig['descr'] = mb_convert_encoding($_POST['descr'],"HTML-ENTITIES","auto");

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