I just wanted to report one small bug that I recently noticed: If you try to type an "&" in a chat message, the "&" and all of the text after it won't display.

This issue surfaced in our chatroom because we use the phrase "Q&A" quite a bit. (Our chatroom sessions are actually called "Q&A Sessions" on our site.) Every time we typed Q&A, the displayed message ended on the Q.

Most likely, the & symbol needs to be escaped somewhere in the code.

Cheers,
Ben

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mrgavindb’s picture

mrgavindb commented

I have this same problem. The whole message shows up for the user that typed it, but not the other user. Other special characters work though.

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mauriziopinotti commented
Status: Active » Needs review

this patch solves the problem:

--- sites/all/modules/im/im.js.orig	2010-08-27 17:56:39.000000000 +0200
+++ sites/all/modules/im/im.js	2010-08-27 17:59:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
       var sendurl= url_prefix + 'im/send_msg/'
         + $('#edit-im-my-uid').val() + '/'
         + $('#edit-im-other-uid').val() + '/?msg='
-        + encodeURI(sendText);
+        + encodeURIComponent(sendText);
       $.ajax({
         type: 'GET',
         url: sendurl,

anyway, just replace "encodeURI" with "encodeURIComponent" in im.js, this will escape ALL chars (encodeURI skips , / ? : @ & = + $ #).