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Copy & paste post title can cause special chars in slug

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When a post is created and the title is being copied and pasted from another source, some special chars e.g. control chars or whitespaces, are included in the slug. Ghost can’t handle those and returns a 404 for the requested post.

Those special chars (e. g. 0x08) need to be stripped out from the title & slug.

Example:

DB: slug: kp-video-unofficial-201 title: 201柯文哲北市長選舉非官方競選影片

Visible on site: slug: kp-video-unofficial-2018%08 title: 2018�柯文哲台�北市長選舉非官方競選影片

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:10 (8 by maintainers)

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kevinansfieldcommented, Dec 6, 2018

If you’re on macOS it’s possible to replicate by using the Character Viewer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/4946245/1163866 - slightly different on recent macOS versions but the principle is the same) to insert the control characters.

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nazcommented, Jan 2, 2019

@kirrg001 I think the problem with these characters in titles/content might surface when we try serving them in XML (for example as a part of sitemaps). Would need to investigate this specific use-case, but I remember that’s the place I had a problem at.

The original issue is fixed, so I think it could be closed. We’d raise a new one if XML suspicion is confirmed 👍