Captions disappearing

Hmmmm I found *an* answer in another thread, although not a very satisfactory one.

In this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/shortcodes-stop-working-after-341-upgrade

There is a comment about removing a line from shortcodes.php

I spent a lot of time looking in to it last night and it turned out to be this line of code in /wp-includes/shortcodes.php in the shortcode_parse_atts() function:

$text = preg_replace("/[\x{00a0}\x{200b}]+/u", " ", $text);

I did this – commented out this code. And it seems to have fixed the problem. This is a very undesirable situation though – changing core functionality.

What’s up with this?

Thanks
Brett

See this post … suspect is PCRE on the linux box

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9323228/phpinfo-is-reporting-incorrect-pcre-version