VisualEditor: HTML non-breaking spaces ( ) converted to ",[object Object], ,[object Object],"
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	• Whatamidoing-WMF
	Dec 10 2013, 6:59 PM

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Reproducible: Didn't try

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Severity: major
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Maple_Leafs&diff=585067098&oldid=584791615

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:39 AM

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This also affects vertical bars ( | ) as seen at ttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paper_Planes&diff=585505452&oldid=581736416

This only seems to affect nbsp's that are present in ref names (where they probably oughtn't be anyway).

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colours_in_the_Dark_%28album%29&curid=39317223&diff=595492480&oldid=593715294 it appears that this happens on HTML codes for things other than non-breaking spaces. #124 is a vertical bar.

Apparently, the user didn't even modify the chapter where the problem occurs.

Here's another:

This time, the ref name contained a template: <ref name="{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the national|chart=Billboard 200}}">

Like most of the others, this is probably the result of a sloppy script.

Here's another:

This one broke over """

I can't reproduce this in Chrome, Safari, Opera or Firefox. Is it possible that this is a browser plug-in or a very odd browser corruption?

It happened yesterday:

I'll ask the user who encountered this one:

since she's pretty active.

Thanks!

No steps to reproduce; no-one managed to reproduce; no new known occurrences for nearly a year. Setting status to STALLED.

In T60282#642603, @Whatamidoing-WMF wrote:

I'll ask the user who encountered this one:

The reply of that user was "I am using Mozilla Firefox on a Dell Inspiron One desktop computer."

Last report a year ago; presumably this was a Parsoid issue that was since fixed?