[brassplayersrock²]

As seen in this thread. http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lou...te-ted-videos/

Is it the forum not rendering the characters correctly, and putting in gibberish?

[Thorzdad]

Hmmm...html entities? That's a weird one. Luckily, it's just the display that's buggered. The actual link is intact and works.

[besson3c]

My guess is vBulletin is sanitizing text that has already been sanitized via htmlspecialchars() or the like.

[brassplayersrock²]

Perhaps the amp hack to make the & work correctly is bugging something else that needs a hack to work correctly?

[P]

It could be that. I looked in to a few days ago. What happens is that Youtube puts formatting characters in the form of HTML entities into the <title> tag in head, for some reason. When you just paste a link without adding an anchor, a script will pull the contents of <title> and make that the anchor. These entities are not parsed at all in the forum, and show up as you see them.

What I think might be happening is that the ampersand bug strikes first, turning the & into "& amp ;" (without the spacebars) so the entire entity becomes "& amp ; #x202a;" This is obviously not parsed, and when our hack steps in to correct the ampersand bug, the moment has passed.

Let me see if we can hack that away manually. I'll bring it up.

[P]

Reader did some more hacking, and Youtube titles look good again.

[brassplayersrock²]

Test MacNN.com -- iPod nano camera demo - YouTube

sweet! Thanks reader and P!