[ic] IC 4.6.5: '&' becomes '&' in html entered with item editor

[Ed LaFrance]

Hi all -

Perl 5.6.0
RH   6.2
IC 4.6.5, construct demo

I've come across a minor mystery (to me). Any text entered in the item 
editor it the above catalog, which contains html tags (such as <b>bold 
text</b>) is being properly converted to html entities (&lt;b&gt;..etc) for 
display in text fields and textareas, and then back to html when the record 
is saved... but only for a superuser.  If I turn off the admin's superuser 
status (yet they still have full permissions for items), logout/login, and 
try the same test, the ampersand in the html entity gets converted to its 
own entity equivalent ('&amp;') which breaks subsequent decode operations.

No filters have been explicitly set for the field in question.  The 
behavior occurs in an unmodified construct demo, installed right out of the 
box, and has been tried with both gdbm and MySQL databases, not that it 
would matter.

Can anyone confirm this, and is there a patch?

Thanks,

Ed L.



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