[Templates] Problem with URL ecoded vars? Upgraded from Template-Toolkit v 2.11 to 2.19

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Vivek" == Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> writes:

Vivek> On Sep 15, 2007, at 5:11 PM, David Martin wrote:

Vivek> You don't want to URI encode your url's in your HTML.  You want to HTML
Vivek> encode them.  Change your |uri filter calls to |html filter calls.
Vivek> There was a correction in the uri filter recently (last or prior
Vivek> version of TT) to make it properly escape all URI escapables.  Thus,
Vivek> you want to use the correct filter, "html".

Yes, the proper way to think about it is that filepaths need to be URI-encoded
to become a URL.  So if you have a filepath, and want a URL, you "| uri".  But
all text in an HTML delivery needs to be entitized, so you add "| html" to
make sure that ampersands are correct.

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