Spaces in Textarea appear encoded

[joe_ma]

Hello

I have a textarea field without FCKEditor with the HTML Entity Encoder active.

Now this leads to the problem, that the spaces in numbers (e.g. telephone numbers) appear encoded in the frontend. Like this:

Tel. 044 461 56 43.

Is there a way to prevent this and keep the entity encoder active?

[horst]

Hi @joe_ma,

not sure on this, but have you checked if this has nothing to do with copy pasting data from anywhere else into the textarea field?

Or the otherway round: this behaves the same if you type manually the String "Tel. 044 461"?

I haven't investigated further, but I'm wondering if the PHP entity encoder makes differences between spaces that are wrapped from numeric chars and spaces that are wrapped only from alpha chars or mixed alpha-numeric chars.

[Christophe]

Perhaps this can help: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/9465-text-area-outputting-p-tags/.

"I checked that HTML entities was off and it was. 

Oddly enough, enabling and then disabling it again worked and my output is now working."

Can you give us more details on your settings, show us the code that you have in your template (in case)...?

And what happens if you replace "#160;" (Entity Number) with " " (Entity Name)?

[joe_ma]

@Horst

Yes, I did check that. Even when I write a number like this manually, it appears encoded in the frontend. The output looks like this:

Pfarrer Christopar Anthonothas Dalima, Tel. 044 461 56 43. Gottesdienste: Jeden 2. und 5. Sonntag um 16.30 Uhr in der Spanischen Mission, Sophiestr. 5, Ostermundigen. Eucharistiefeier jeden 4. Sonntag um 11.30 Uhr in der Pfarrei St. Josef, Stapfenstr. 25, 3097 Köniz.

Note that even the space after the CAP is encoded.

Whereas the textfield looks like this:

Pfarrer Christopar Anthonothas Dalima, Tel. 044 461 56 43. Gottesdienste: Jeden 2. und 5. Sonntag um 16.30 Uhr in der Spanischen Mission, Sophiestr. 5, Ostermundigen. Eucharistiefeier jeden 4. Sonntag um 11.30 Uhr in der Pfarrei St. Josef, Stapfenstr. 25, 3097 Köniz

@Christophe

Yes, I did check and uncheck the encoder, with no results.

And what happens if you replace "#160;" (Entity Number) with " " (Entity Name)?

How can I do this? It is a textarea field without editor. So there is no "HTML" button.

[horst]

You can add a textformatter to that Field.

drop the following code into a file named and located at

site/modules/TextformatterRemoveEncodedSpaces/TextformatterRemoveEncodedSpaces.module

<?php
class TextformatterRemoveEncodedSpaces extends Textformatter {

    public static function getModuleInfo() {
        return array(
            'title'    => 'Remove Encoded Spaces ()',
            'version'  => '0.0.1',
            'summary'  => 'Removes that weird encoded spaces (& #160  from my Textareas!'
        );
    }

    public function format(&$str) {

        $search = array(
            ' '
            );

        $replace = array(
            ' '
            );

        $str = str_replace($search, $replace, $str);

    }
}

install it and add it to the output of your textarea field.

[joe_ma]

Thank you Horst.

I'll give that a try. I am out of office at the moment.

I'll tell you about the results as soon as possible.

[WillyC]

U sguold not uses.entity encodededer w ckeditor

or any.html feld

uses it.with feilds thet haves.no htmls

[joe_ma]

uses it.with feilds thet haves.no htmls

I do, I do.

[joe_ma]

I now seem to have resolved the problem.

While installing Horst's Module from above, I became aware, that there is also a textformatter module called "Newlines to XHTML line breaks".

So far I used the php function nl2br() for displaying the content of the said field. I now removed that function and installed the "Newlines ..." module, and lo! it works!

@Horst:

So, your module is not even necessary. I appologize for the trouble I caused and I thank you for all your help.