Smart quotes creating a problem with anonymos user role

Question

I have create a view. The content of the view loads fine when logged in as admin. But in some of the content when you copy paste from MS Work, certain characters changes.

For e.g. " becomes “

Now the content which contains such characters is not displayed in that view.

But when logged in as admin, I see those content. What could be the problem ?

I checked using devel. The number of results which are fetch is different. Those with special characters are not fetched when viewing as anonymous user.

Answer 1

Without more information it's hard to tell exactly's going on but there's a couple things that come to mind:

• Copying and pasting from MS Word/other rich text editors is notoriously problematic and both TinyMCE and CKEditor have built-in settings for pasting data from Word & stripping the extra formatting
• In case you're not using any WYSIWYG you should always paste your code in Notepad or another plain-text editor and then re-copy it to lose the extra formatting
• Finally, I don't really think it applies to viewing content at all but the visibility thing might have to do with the text-format used in the body field, it's common to edit content using Full HTML and then users without access to it (only Filtered HTML for example) can't edit it