Meta data being rewritten with encoded characters [#115158]

Hi there,

The company I'm implementing Meta Tags for has an apostrophe in the company name (e.g., "Lefty's Used Cars"). The data is going into the nodewords table with the straight quotes unencoded, but when the meta tags are spit out in the header, they print like so:

<meta name="description" content="Lefty&#38;#039;s Used Cars offers lots of really special automobiles to our customers." />
<meta name="keywords" content="used cars,other terms,lefty&#38;#039;s,leftys" />

According to SEO experts I've spoken with, this is a problem. I'm not sure whether this is something that can be addressed on the module level, but if not, I'm hoping someone can help point me to a solution.

My aplologies if this has been addressed elsewhere -- I couldn't find any mention of it.

Thanks so much!

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	nodewords-check_content.txt	839 bytes	Robrecht Jacques

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Comment #1

Robrecht Jacques commented 3 February 2007 at 09:55

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The ' is replaced by &#039; in _nodewords_check_content() which is called on the text of each meta tag. In that function the call to check_plain() does the replacing.

Please replace the old function _nodewords_check_content($text) with the one in the attachment (adding 3 lines) and report whether this works for you. I'll commit it if you tell me it works like intended.

(sorry, don't have the ability to create a real patch now - setting it as "patch (code needs review)" anyway)