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Invisible space characters are inserted via copy/paste #17

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jonesey95 opened this issue Feb 28, 2024 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #19
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Invisible space characters are inserted via copy/paste #17

jonesey95 opened this issue Feb 28, 2024 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #19

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I reported this in detail at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358717 and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Shortdesc_helper#Shortdesc_helper_allowing_insertion_of_invalid_invisible_space_characters

Invisible space characters are being inserted via copy/paste. I think a similar pattern to the DATEREPLACEMENT code could silently replace invisible space characters with regular space characters.

The DATEREPLACEMENT code could also be enhanced to replace em dashes with en dashes; I have fixed hundreds of errant em dashes in date ranges and other parts of short descriptions.
NovemLinguae added a commit to NovemLinguae/shortdesc-helper that referenced this issue Apr 11, 2024
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replace non-breaking spaces with regular spaces
109b461 
Must use RegEx so we can replace multiple in the same string

Tested in JS console but not tested in gadget

Fixes wikimedia-gadgets#17
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replace non-breaking spaces with regular spaces NovemLinguae/shortdesc-helper
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