Uppercase bug in smart-link plugin from Semiologic

  • I found a bug in the smart-link plugin, version 2.2 while using it with WordPress 2.0:

    If there are some uppercase characters in the anchor text, the link is not created.

    Examples:

    Link will NOT be created: [test TEST->this-is-a-slug]
    Link WILL be created: [test test->this-is-a-slug]

    Hope Denis can reproduce and fix this bug…

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  • Works fine on my dev site, but I recall someone else had mentionned the same kind of issue with ?.

    I think this has to do with the way php and mysql handle charsets. The interaction between the two is extremely poor, and mysql 4.1 introduced a hoard of charset related bugs that are not fixed in mysql 5. Not much I can do here.

    Thread Starter ledermann

    (@ledermann)

    Thank you for this answer. I’ve tested your plugin on two installations:

    1) PHP 5.5.1 / MySQL 4.1.13
    2) PHP 4.4.2 / MySQL 4.0.25

    On both installation there is the same problem. Before upgrading to WordPress 2.0 (and Smartlink 2.2) there was no problem on both installation.

    Now I have tested german “Umlaute”, no errors with this:
    [test ü??->this-is-a-slug]

    Programming with PHP and MySQL is not my main profession, but I don’t think this problem has something to do with charsets, because uppercase is also ASCII and german “Umlaute” works fine here.

    Are there any tests I can do for you on my servers helping to find this bug?

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