MXP not escaping single quote character when generating link.

Brief summary of issue / Description of requested feature:

The single quote can’t be escaped, and isn’t automatically escaped when included as part of a MXP response. Trying to substitute ' yields ' as it escapes the & character instead.

Steps to reproduce the issue / Reasons for adding feature:

1. say |lc' Aye!|lt|gAll in favor?|n|le
2. say |lcget lady's coin purse|lt|gpick up the item that the merchant dropped|n|le
3. Notice no effect when clicking on links with MXP-enabled client or webclient

Error output / Expected result of feature

You say, "<SEND HREF='' Aye!'>All in favor?</SEND>" You say, "<SEND HREF='get lady's coin purse'>pick up the item that the merchant dropped</SEND>"

Expected escape of single quote as an HTML entity when within single quotes or use of double quotes when no double quote exists in the HREF:

You say, "<SEND HREF='&#39; Aye!'>All in favor?</SEND>" You say, "<SEND HREF='get lady&#39;s coin purse'>pick up the item that the merchant dropped</SEND>"

or

You say, "<SEND HREF="' Aye!">All in favor?</SEND>" You say, "<SEND HREF="get lady's coin purse">pick up the item that the merchant dropped</SEND>"

Extra information, such as Evennia revision/repo/branch, operating system and ideas for how to solve / implement:

current

The raw links are visible by forcing @option mxp=on in a non-MXP client.

[Griatch]

My bad, the environment wasn’t as clean as I thought it was. Running with a clean game dir and applying the \\&quote; in the replacement seems to have resolved the issue so that

say |lcsay Able to process a quote character: (")|ltClick on this!|le 

(and other combinations of " or ’ in the cmd) now appears to work. I have not tested with the RPsystem though.

[BlauFeuer]

I was probably having the same problem with a test environment. Anyway, I can close this now! I tested on 4 different game folders, one of them a vanilla+RP system, another a vanilla, and two different game folders in various levels of development, one of them on a different computer. Now, the MXP link does nothing if you do escape the double quote. We’ll just call that “expected behavior” and leave it at that.