[support] Strange characters in source of block

[Anthony]

Thanks. Still don't know why the problem surfaced.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Anthony <tony at tony-mac.com> wrote:
> > I got this blurb from Bluehost:
> >
> > "Some versions of Drupal have begun to display this problem with internal
> > character escaping functionality. I suggest you contact their support,
> > community forums or documentation if you wish a final answer as to the
> > cause. Fixing the issue is very simple, you have two options stop the
> escape
> > characters from being inserted:
> >
> > Change to PHP 5.3 and update your Drupal installation to the most recent
> > version. This can be done in the PHP Config section of the cPanel. Simply
> > click on the radio button to the left of PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.3 Single
> > (depending on which php.ini behavior you prefer) and then save the
> changes.
> >
> > You may also disable magic_quotes_gpc in the php.ini. This is done by
> > finding the php.ini that applies to your Drupal installation in the File
> > Manager, and Editing it. Once inside, search (the ctrl+f find function is
> > recommended) for the line magic_quotes_gpc=On and set this variable to
> > magic_quotes_gpc=Off
> >
> > Note, the magic_quotes_gpc line may exist more than once, if so,
> duplicates
> > should be removed."
>
> As I said earlier, magic_quotes_gpc is turned off by the default
> .htaccess given to you in the core Drupal site.  The only way that
> this is not being used is if BlueHost has rebuilt PHP to disallow the
> .htaccess setting of magic_quotes_gpc.  Also, note, that
> magic_quotes_gpc is removed from more current releases of PHP so
> depending on it is not a good thing.  I now need to check my sites I
> suppose but I haven't had any noticeable issues yet.
>
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> Earnie
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*Anthony Stefan Maciejowski*
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