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Bug 499 - Numeric entity references in alt text
Numeric entity references in alt text
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: parser
Depends on:
Blocks: 367
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Reported: 2004-09-15 17:46 UTC by Alan Barrett
Modified: 2010-05-15 14:35 UTC (History)
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Description Alan Barrett 2004-09-15 17:46:26 UTC
Wikitext like [[Image:Whatever.gif|♀]] generates HTML output like 
<img src="..." alt="&amp;#9792;">, whereas it should generate HTML 
output like <img src="..." alt="&#9792;">.
Comment 1 Wil Mahan 2004-10-04 18:56:44 UTC
The culprit is this line in Skin::makeImageLinkObj():

 $alt = htmlspecialchars( $alt );

I think a good fix would be to instead just replace
" with &quot;. I won't commit this change yet, to avoid
interfering with other work on alt tags (like bug 368).
Comment 2 Rowan Collins [IMSoP] 2004-10-04 19:01:42 UTC
Don't forget < and > as well; I suspect leaving those unescaped in attributes is
rather a bad idea. And what about literally & - that *does* need to be escaped
to &amp; Somehow, we need to say "escape things that aren't escaped entities
already" :/
Comment 3 Wil Mahan 2004-10-04 23:13:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Don't forget < and > as well; I suspect leaving those unescaped in attributes is
> rather a bad idea. And what about literally & - that *does* need to be escaped
> to &amp; Somehow, we need to say "escape things that aren't escaped entities
> already" :/

Right you are. How about this (the regexp is taken from Parser):

$alt = preg_replace('/&(?!:amp;|#[Xx][0-9A-fa-f]+;|#[0-9]+;|[a-zA-Z0-9]+;)/',
   '&amp;', $alt);
$alt = str_replace( array('<', '>', '"'), array('&lt;', '&gt;', '&quot;'), $alt );

Btw, makeThumbLinkObj() has the same code, and so should be changed as well.
Skin.php has a lot of duplicate code, it seems.
Comment 4 Wil Mahan 2004-10-05 04:14:59 UTC
I committed the change to HEAD (Skin.php revision 1.287), and
added a parser test case for this bug.
Comment 5 Brion Vibber 2004-12-11 23:26:59 UTC
1.4 release imminent, resolving as fixed.

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