"«" ("& laquo ;") character etc. are being double-escaped and garbled

In the sentences where the left and right angle quotes (« or ») are used as arrows (e.g. http://www.geni.com/tr8n/phrases/view?translation_key_id=228666), when you right-click for in-line translation, the "«" character is changed into its HTML entity "& laquo ;".

Once the translation is submitted, the ampersand "&" in the HTML entity is being turned into its own HTML entity so that the garbled text reads "& amp ; laquo ;" instead of "«".

This doesn't occur if you don't do in-line translation, i.e. click "add your own translation" on a phase's own page.

(N.B. I put the spaces in "& laquo ;" to make sure it was displayed literally, not as its HTML entity - I'm not sure how the discussion form is handled and didn't want it garbled again. It might prove my point but would be difficult to understand.)

I usually just Copy-Paste the "«" symbol from English original to my translation. Then mostly it works well.

P.S. In some cases even the quotes marks " " or „ “ are garbled in translation result.

In Serbian language we do not have " " quotes marks, we have only „ “.

Yes, Lauri, I've been doing that as a workaround. It's simple enough but a bit annoying. :)

This is fixed now.

Just tried translating http://www.geni.com/tr8n/phrases/view?translation_key_id=228570&amp... which you can see is garbled.

If you go back into the translation (inline) and resave without changing anything, each time the & is turned into & and it breaks the HTML entity before it, leading to a string of &amp...

Doesn't seem fixed yet. :(

P.S. The translation I gave above I voted down so it could be displayed from that link but wouldn't interfere with the proper site. I'll delete it once this is resolved.

Oh, and P.P.S., I suppose, re one of the other discussions, this problem happens both in Firefox and Chrome. I've purged IE from my life so can't test. It's definitely a problem with server-side script processing and wrongly escaping the contents of the translation form.

It works for me. I'm on Windows using Chrome.

Hmmm... I use Windows (tried XP, Vista and 7, matter of fact) and Chrome (also tried Firefox) too but it still doesn't work.

I find that recently (unlike the first few months of Tr8n), whenever I enter a character such as " < > « » or „ “, it is garbled.

The character breaks into its entity name, then the ampersand in the entity name is broken into its entity name, ad infinitum.

Regardless whether I enter the character itself (copy-paste) or its entity, the result breaks the ampersand every successive time the translation is edited.

This applies to both inline and non-inline translating, I've noticed.

Additionally, I can't use < b > < / b > in translations any more, because the angle brackets are broken into & lt ; and & gt ; , which are then broken in the same way as above.

Yeah, very frustrating. I think they changed their phaser.

This could be more of an issue for Amos Elliston to solve.

Private User Thanks to giving us NEW BUG
After opening your link:
http://www.geni.com/tr8n/phrases/view?translation_key_id=228570&amp...
in new window or tab (of FireFox) my Geni was switched over to German...
and next time I opened also "Amos Eagle Elliston" profile in German!!!

Some bug with Cookies?

No, I deliberately included "locale=de" in the link so that my German translation would be displayed. When you select a new locale, it changes your language to that. You have to reselect your prefered language in the usual way to reset. Seems valid enough to me...

We're looking into this issue.

Thanks Amos!

Great, thanks Amos.

An alternative fix for the bold issue would be to allow [bold:] anywhere.

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