Item10507: VarSEARCH noms HTML entities in $summary output, behaves strangely

I've noticed some strange behavior when using the $summary formatting token in my %SEARCH% macros:

1. Ampersands get chopped off of HTML entities, so things like quotes look like #34;this#34; instead of "this" in the rendered output.
2. Entities seem to count toward the character count when applying a character limit to summary output. If there are entities in the summary string, it will be truncated prematurely.
3. There seems to be a minimum character count on the summary token (maybe around 15 characters), which isn't stated in the documentation, and doesn't seem necessary.

I've managed to work around #1 with some FilterPlugin regex:

%SUBST{text="$summary" pattern="(#(\d+);)" format="&$1"}%

...but that only fixes numeric entities, as I thought ((\w+);) might match too many things that weren't actually entities (not that the current workaround won't do that too).

%SEARCH% should really preserve entities, and count them as one character.

-- AaronFuleki - 18 Mar 2011

Confirmed.

-- GeorgeClark - 19 Mar 2011

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