[ic] Problem with Content Editor on 5.2.0

[Gary Norton]

Mathew Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a client using IC 5.2.0, and experiences occasional problems 
> with the content editor.
> When editing a page in the admin tools, the text will appear cutoff in 
> the 'CONTENT' area with a series of characters which look like squares 
> with a black outline. When I look at the source code for the page 
> these characters appear to be �
> When I pico into the page all the original text is there in the 
> CONTENT area, however up at the top of the page in the [comment] 
> section is the cut off portion of the text which looks something like 
> this.
>
> ui_body: <table width="560" align="center"><tr><td>Call tollfree 
> 1-866-462@^@^@^@^@^@^@
>
>
> the @^ is repeated over 1000 times
>
> if my client now saves this page, it overwrites the content with the 
> gobledygook that is in the ui_body
>
> Has anyone ever experience this before? She has experienced this on 
> both netscape 7 and IE6.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mat

We did see something similar to this a while ago. If I recall we were 
using the HTMLAREA widget from 5.3 and did not have the proper language 
setting set for the site/widget.

Once we reset the language option for the HTMLAREA widget the problem 
was resolved. I believe that it was related to the interpretation of 
white-space and the UTF-8 character set.

However, if you are not using the widget, then this would not apply.

YMMV,
Gary