Item12388: HTML2TML relies on XML-specific ' entity

HTML2TML converts ' and ' to ' in an intermediate step; according to code comments this is done to prevent the entity from being decoded in a following step. However, ' is not defined in HTML (only in XML and thus XHTML), and so older/stricter browsers (IE7 and IE8 are examples of the former category) will treat it as plain text.

Possible fix: after decoding the entitites, replace ' with ' to mostly restore the previous condition.

-- JanKrueger - 08 Feb 2013

In other places, TML2HTML uses markers to protect / restore elements. Rather than converting to HTML entities as "protection", it might be preferable to encode them using some other marker, and then convert back, preserving the original TML.

-- GeorgeClark - 08 Feb 2013

Tiny MCE actually uses apos, which is where I got it from.

Changed the code to use rsquo instead.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Jan 2015

Reverted. ... breaks 33 unit tests.

-- GeorgeClark - 22 Jan 2015

Done again, this time correctly Checked in to Item14323.

-- Main.CrawfordCurrie - 01 Mar 2017 - 20:17

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