TYPO3 Core

The concept of parsing and modifying the input of the RTE is completely broken at one point, making it essentially impossible to write a text on html inside of Typo3.

1) Using the RTE in WYSIWYG Mode and typing the usual tag open and tag closed brackets directly from keyboard.

Storing this after the edit produces in the browser of the page the anchortext as text and an empty anchor without a href and without an anchor attribute with a seemingly artificial id of c163.

Reopening the page in the editor produces a yellow marker claiming an incorrect anchor.

In my opinion, this is incorrect behaviour, since in WYSIWYG mode the system should understand that a tag open bracket has a different meaning than in HTML Mode.

2) Using the RTE in TEXT (HTML) Mode and typing with the Insert Special Character feature seemed the next logical solution.

First, the special character feature did not offer brackets conforming in size and form to the usual size and form just smaller ones (ie. lsaquo and rsaquo entities). So I kind of tried to settle with those, to no avail.

Second, the lsaquo and rsaquo characters show up correctly in the RTE in WYSIWYG mode but in TEXT (HTML) mode they still show up as small brackets and not in their entity encoding lsaquo and rsaquo, which I find weird and inconsistent (they should show up as HTML entities in HTML mode).

Third, when rendering this and looking at the result in the browser, I just get question marks. (Not, it is not an incorrect encoding in the browser, typo 3 in fact generates the questions marks, easy to verify in a packet sniffer and in view source).

In my opinion, this is just plainly weird behaviour here.

3) Using the RTE in TEXT (HTML) Mode I entered the HTML entities lt and gt for the brackets (yes, I used the ampersand and the semicolon, but I do not want to run into similar problems in the forum here...)

It showed up correctly, when switching the RTE back to WYSIWYG mode. In the browser it produces the same results as in 1) - upon store - as well as upon a second edit open and store (ie. the yellow link complaint).

So, first, I believe there are some bugs in the RTE and preparsing concept here and second, I do not know how to write a simple text containing some brackets in text mode short of trying the pure HTML feature. This IS text, I am selecting the proper mode, and it does nto work.

• This is Typo3 4.1 serving from Redhat 3
• Client browser is Netscape 1.7.5 Mozilla/5.0 running on Win XP
• style.content.links.allowTags contains the a tag
  (issue imported from #M5659)