I'm noticing that a lot of XOOPS modules have problems when apostrophes/quotation marks are used in the title description.

I know that Agenda-X will not even post an event if an apostrophe is used in an entry.

The next module that I've found to have a problem displaying quote marks in title entries is new Super Spotlight mod (seen with the guitar website).

When I type...
Quote:

...in a News 1.21 title it displays as...
Quote:

...in Super Spotlight's Other News block. It adds a space and capitalizes the "S" and it's driving me NUTS!

How can this be fixed? And why do a lot of XOOPS modules have probles with quotation marks? ' " Is it some basic flaw in the core?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

It is not a basic flaw in the core, but inappropriate/inadequate use of text sanitation.

I've been trying to solve the way some XOOPS modules tend to incorrectly display apostrophes all day. But I haven't had much luck.

I tried to use the new Super Spotlight 2.1 (used on the guitar site) but I gave up because when it pulled news items for the "other news" section it messed up displaying titles that utilized apostrophes. It inexplicably adds a space and capitalizes the "s" so that the titles appear as: People' S Choice Awards.

Even though the title is correctly listed in the News 1.21 module.

I installed the normal Spotlight 1.4 module and noticed that it does not have this problem. That's great, but I do like the layout of Super Spotlight 2.1 better. I was wondering why Spotlight 1.4 correctly displays the "other news" titles while the "new and improved" Super Spotlight 2.1 off-shoot does not?

OK so the reason some mods mess up is because they have incorrectly used "text sanitization." If that's the case then how do I fix the way Super Spotlight handles text sanitization?

If anybody knows, I'd love to know. Thanks so much for your time!