Hi Stas,

At 03:11 14.11.2002, Stas Bekman wrote:
Geoffrey Young wrote:
hi all...
below is a patch, created (mostly) by darren, for functionality requested by a user.
basically, Martin has asked for single quotes to be automatically escaped by
escape_html(), alongside the other 4 escapes (<, >, &, ").
Don't we have a problem with backwards compatibility here? If people were adding extra code to escape ' without checking that it's already escaped, now if we do it in escape_html(), there is a problem as it'd be escaped twice. Thus this change will break other people's code.
If it's already escaped, it can't be escaped one more time, because when escaped it's become &apos;, so there's no single quote there to escape again. So no backward compatibility problem.

Perhaps, escape_html() could optionally accept a range of chars to escape similar to HTML::Entities::encode_entities, and then the problem is solved without breaking anything.
I think this is going a little too far, especially for 1.0. I think we should just make this small change, and leave it as is afterwards.


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Per Einar Ellefsen
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