Twitter protocol - special characters not displaying properly

[omniwolf]

Hi again

Recently i've noticed that the twitter client is not displaying "<" or ">" correctly in the twitter feed.  instead it displays "&lt;" or "&gt;".
This happened previously with the "&" character, and when i was maintaining the protocol i had to "fix" this as you can see here:

https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/blob/master/protocols/Twitter/src/twitter.cpp#L243

and here:

https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/blob/master/protocols/Twitter/src/twitter.cpp#L252


So you'd have to put somewhere around line 263 (above the push_back(u) call):

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// ok here i'm trying some way to fix all the ">" and "<" things that are showing up
// i dunno why it's happening, so i'll just find and replace each occurance :/
std::string rawText = u.status.text;
for (size_t pos = 0; (pos = rawText.find("<", pos)) != std::string::npos; pos++)
rawText.replace(pos, 4, "<");

for (size_t pos = 0; (pos = rawText.find("&gt;", pos)) != std::string::npos; pos++)
rawText.replace(pos, 4, ">");

u.status.text = rawText;

[Robyer]

Done :-) http://trac.miranda-ng.org/changeset/14734/

[omniwolf]

much neater, thank you