Bug #70443 [NEW]: VCS request form doesn't handle apostrophes correctly

From: colinodell at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Website problem Bug Type: Bug Bug description:VCS request form doesn't handle apostrophes correctly Description: ------------ My name (Colin O'Dell) contains an apostrophe character. When I submitted the VCS request form (http://php.net/git-php.php), the resulting email to the mailing list (http://news.php.net/php.doc/969385877) didn't properly (un)escape the apostrophe. Expected result: ---------------- My name would appear as: Colin O'Dell Actual result: -------------- See http://news.php.net/php.doc/969385877 There's a backslash in the "From" field. The email body also contains a backslash followed by the numeric HTML entity. And here's how the email came through: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/449877/ShareX/2015/09/2015-09-06_22-17-37.png -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70443&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=70443&r=mysqlcfg