Feature #1724
Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) over 4 years ago
=begin Certain language specific chars like the german "Umlaute" are represented in HTML with "ä" (ä), "ü" (ü) etc. Since ERB::Util.html_escape escapes the & to become "&" one cannot use these HTML codes. To work around this problem I modified ERB::Util.html_escape like this: def html_escape(s) s.to_s.gsub(/&(?!.uml)/, "&").gsub(/\"/, """).gsub(/>/, ">").gsub(/</, "<") end The modification is in the first call of gsub where I added the condition (?!.uml). it forces the function to ignore the "&" if it is followed by a pattern that indicates one of the aforementiond HTML-codes. I consider this being a safe modification. =end