HTML Character Entities


#1

I’m working on an old piston that has worked 100% for the past 5 months.
It recently stopped working, and I noticed something peculiar in the code.
(I suspect something changed in the last update.)

I am doing a GET command, and my URL has this in it:
temp

Yet once I save it, it is displayed as:
temp2

Why is it converting to the symbol without the required semi-colon?

I am not sure if this has caused my piston to stop working recently, but I am determined to get it fixed one way or another.


#2

Not all character encoding requires a semi colon. URL encode doesn’t, which is probably what you are seeing here.


#3

So should I re-write the “&” in a different way?


#4

Just did a Google on &para and it seems that is valid HTML encoding. You could try URL encoding the ampersand with %26 and see if that sorts is.


#5

The URL probably won’t work if the & is percent encoded, as long as you see the & character correctly in the Value field for that URL this is just a display glitch. I’ll try to fix that in the next update, it shouldn’t be anything for you to worry about.


#6

Thanks @ipaterson. I appreciate the clarification.