Hi,

First discovered a problem specified in MDL-74947, i now realise it's something (more) general : when in a text field, if you insert a < character followed by (an)other character(s), and not by a space, when saving the value (the whole form), it's truncated at the < place.

If you use :

• "rtyu < 99" => "rtyu < 99"
• "rtyu< 99" => "rtyu< 99"
• "rtyu <99" => "rtyu "
• "rtyu<99" => "rtyu"

In short, the text is truncated when a < character is immediatly followed by another character, and not by a space!

It's the case in lot of places. In fact, it seems related to the fact that the field is in PARAM_TEXT (and not in PARAM_RAW). I suspect this type of field is made (and cleaned) to avoid insertion of bad code in the database.

Could this be improved to clean text while allowing to insert such < character?

I think MDL-46754 is somehow related.

Séverin