Quotes in product name vs. editor

[Saga Shirts]

I've been creating a bunch of products that have quotation marks in their product name; at first I thought this only affected leading quotes, but now I've found it in product names that just contain quotes.

Here's what happens:

1. I add a bunch of products, assigning a single name to them during product creation. The name contains a phrase that's bracketed by quotation marks.

2. Once I've added them, I find myself on the section contents page where I can further edit their markups etc.

3. I select "edit product info" - at this point, any part of the product name after the first quotation mark vanishes. In a name with leading quotes, this means that the product name disappears completely.

4. If I cancel the changes to preserve the original name, it appears exactly as it did before.

5. If I now edit again, the name does not change.

(It looks as though when I cancel the changes, the system does something smart with the product name which I wish it had done in the first place :). )

6. Yet if I return to that section later and try to edit a product again, once more the name loses anything from the first quotation mark on.

Because I've added plenty of products in the past with quotes in their names, I think this is a fairly recent glitch. I don't remember this happening to me before.

If it matters, Firefox 2.

[Raw Tees]

I can confirm this...it has happened to me since day 1!

[KrypticEye]

Saga,
Are you using single or double quotes? I do know that a single quote often will be read by programs as a terminator to a string and will truncate anything after it when used in a [display this text] type function, which product titles fall under for us here. If double quotes are doing it too, I would just avoid them altogether.

Have you tried using the " code? perhaps that would work

[Saga Shirts]

Have you tried using the " code? perhaps that would work

That's a pretty interesting thought, and I might try it next time - but it sure eats up a lot of characters!