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Characters rendered as html tags in 1.4.26

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

Happens markdown enabled and disabled both

Reply to a message having a word with quotation marks or find a message with the characters below.
See that it’s mangled.

Quotation marks:

Apostrophe and zero-width:

On web this looks like:

The event source for example:

{
  "content": {
    "body": "> <@...> test\n\n\"test\"",
    "format": "org.matrix.custom.html",
    "formatted_body": "<mx-reply><blockquote><a href=\"https://matrix.to/#/!MJOXUSmcmyjOXEjsbp:.../$0VkvhRhLoDGyfXa86lX704YSw2DaOOSYA0jdUq7SdQo?via=...\">In reply to</a> <a href=\"https://matrix.to/#/@...\">@...</a><br />test</blockquote></mx-reply>&quot;test&quot;",
    "msgtype": "m.text"
  },
  "room_id": "!MJOXUSmcmyjOXEjsbp:...",
  "type": "m.room.message"
}

{
  "content": {
    "body": " ♫ We're on easy street ♫",
    "format": "org.matrix.custom.html",
    "formatted_body": "&ZeroWidthSpace; ♫ We&apos;re on easy street ♫",
    "msgtype": "m.text"
  },
  "event_id": "$165681828423000brNSu:matrix.org",
  "origin_server_ts": 1656818284642,
  "sender": "@_snoonet_gonzobot:matrix.org",
  "type": "m.room.message",
  "unsigned": {},
  "room_id": "!czDHgTFPrQVLaaYqbk:matrix.org"
}

Outcome

What did you expect?

Rendered properly.

What happened instead?

Rendered as html tags

Your phone model

No response

Operating system version

Andorid 10

Application version and app store

1.4.26 Google Play

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

Are you willing to provide a PR?

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

proletarius101commented, Jul 15, 2022

When is that release expected?

You can also download the signed apks: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/releases/tag/v1.4.28

1reaction

cloudrac3rcommented, Jul 3, 2022

Correct, this is a regression from 6537. I figured out how to fix it, expect a PR.

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