4385: Unable to display two consecutive Hyphen-Minus characters in code boxes - Composr CMS feature tracker

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4385	Composr	core_comcode_pages	public	2020-09-27 22:03	2021-03-15 18:01

Reporter	jacobgkau	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor
Status	new	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	10.0.31

Summary	4385: Unable to display two consecutive Hyphen-Minus characters in code boxes
Description	Saving a Comcode page with two Hyphen-Minus characters next to each other converts them into a single longer dash, by design. If I place two Hyphen-Minus characters next to each other within a code box, they are not replaced in the editor upon saving, but they are still displayed as a single longer dash in the rendered page, which is incorrect. The Hyphen-Minus character is also known as: * HTML entity: - * UTF-8 encoding: 0x2D I thought I was working around this issue by using the HTML entity instead of the regular character, but that workaround is not currently working, so the behavior may have changed or I may be remembering wrong. At this point, I've tried to work around this in various ways: --texthere --texthere <span>-</span><span>-</span>texthere In all of these cases, the rendered page displays a single En Dash character (\u2013) instead of the two minus characters.
Steps To Reproduce	Create a code box with two Hyphen-Minus characters followed by some other text (just two minus characters instead creates a horizontal rule): [code] --test [/code]
Additional Information	The use case for two hyphen-minus signs in a code box is displaying Bash commands, which use two hyphen-minus characters to begin long flags: * certbot --apache * msktutil --computer-name While I can understand converting to an EM dash for normal text, the code box should render text exactly how it was entered.
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Chris Graham 2020-09-28 21:10 administrator ~6718	We've had a lot of subtle issues with how code tags are handled, especially when WYSIWYG is involved, and particularly with the need to apply HTML security filtering. Fix one thing, another thing breaks. I've been maintaining a unit test with various cases to address this. This issue is now resolved with a major cleanup of how the code is handling code+WYSIWYG, and the test set extended to cover this specific case.

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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-09-27 22:03	jacobgkau	New Issue
2020-09-28 21:10	Chris Graham	Note Added: 0006718
2021-03-15 18:01	Chris Graham	Status	Not Assigned => Resolved
2021-03-15 18:01	Chris Graham	Resolution	open => fixed
2021-03-15 18:01	Chris Graham	Description Updated