Problem with shoutbox

After upgrading to 7.2.1 I have a problem with shoutbox posts, if you enter 3 commas on third comma I get this &co­mma; , same is with periods &peri­od; etc, anybody know where to look and correct this issue?

Interesting.   Also happens with <   >   "  ?   [{ }] % () and most other special characters.

Overuse of punctuation marks aside, this should not happen.

Topic moved to 'Bugs and Issues' forum.

We are trying to identify this problem, but most probably it is because of different default MySQL collations. It would be great if you can provide access to your site (ftp, phpMyAdmin, Dolphin admin panel) so we can check it carefully and make the fix in next version.

For a while you can try the following fix:

If you have MySQL 5.5.3+, you can try to change collation to utf8mb4:

ALTER TABLE  `bx_shoutbox_messages` CHANGE  `Message`  `Message` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL;

Thank you @SirOliver for providing the access, the problem was identified:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/issues/144

And fixed:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/commit/150cd0ea480dc0bf5140e196da0c246c6376188e

Hello,

i have had the same Problem and tried the fix as described. Most special characters are now shown correct, but i have still some characters which have this Problem if Minimum 5 times typed in !

For example : ä

if 5 times typed in it Displays : ääää&­auml;­    

same with : ´ ö ü § < > "

Boonex demo also

Dolphin 7.2.1

German Language

Any ideas whats going on here ?

Thanks, and Greetings

Harry

Thank you for the report:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/issues/379

Issue has been resolved:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/commit/5a33bc96ca0538753a3f534ec7cc072a4bd1ec22