Comments for FastSearch encoding issue

FastSearch encoding issue

2009-06-20T08:19:31Z

In installs using MySQL 5, I've noticed that when adding double quotes to the search term (as per the instructions: to search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes), in the search results the double quotes get encoded to " and display as " rather than ".

As an example: when searching "sample phrase", the result would be:

You searched for... "sample phrase".

Comment from gulliver on 2009-06-20

2009-06-20T08:22:17Z

Let's try that again without the garbled code:

As an example: when searching "sample phrase", the result would be:

You searched for… "sample phrase".

Comment from gulliver on 2009-06-20

2009-06-20T08:27:22Z

Damn - third time lucky, perhaps.
And if the preview worked better we wouldn't have this malarkey.

In the returned result, instead of "sample phrase", the double quotes are replaced with ampersand+quot+semicolon.

Comment from gulliver on 2009-06-22

2009-06-23T05:46:28Z

In init.fastsearch.php, replacing

$string = str_replace( '\"', '"', $string );

with

$string = str_replace( '\"', '"', $string );

now returns " rather than " in the results and appears to fix the issue.

With minimal knowledge of this stuff, I'm assuming this is something to do with things being printed rather than evaluated (and vice-versa).