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htmlspecialchars() bug in blogger.com

Found a strange htmlspecialchars() bug in blogger.com

The title of my blog is <?php echo 'R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah'; ?>, but blogger.com doesn't convert the html entities in the title when it spits out. Because of this bug, the title doesn't appear in my blog--browser just treats it as a broken html tag. This bug could have been fixed by using htmlspecialchars(), if it's powered by PHP.

Also, noticed that this compose box eats any texts entered such.

I gonna report this bug.

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R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah said…
Yes, lawrence krubner. They may be stripping html tags. But, the compose box is really buggy. If you switch between "Edit HTML", "Compose" and "Preview", sometimes some of your texts will vanish suddenly.

This htmlspecialchars() bug appears only in blog tittle/header; in all other places they're converting it to proper html entities.
Dec 11, 2004, 6:13:00 PM
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