• Registered: 2016-01-26
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Topic: Bug: Captions with single quotes/question marks break gallery [SOLVED]

It doesn't totally break it, but causes any image accompanied by a caption with either a single quote or question mark not to display. Those with single quotes display the typical "image missing" icon; those with question marks present a gray box in the thumbnails and a perpetual Jukebox spinner in the image area.

Gallery was built on a Mac running El Capitan v10.11.2. Problem occurs using either Mac Safari 9.0.2 or Firefox 44.0.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: Bug: Captions with single quotes/question marks break gallery [SOLVED]

This is a known issue and is noted in the 'Known Issues' section of the JuiceboxBuilder User Guide.

JuiceboxBuilder will not accept images with the following characters in the filename: #, ? and '. Please rename files before importing to JuiceboxBuilder.

As an image filename forms part of a URL when uploaded to a web server, it would be wise to use only web-safe characters. Please see section 2.3 of this document for details: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

Characters that are allowed in a URI but do not have a reserved purpose are called unreserved. These include uppercase and lowercase letters, decimal digits, hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde.

JuiceboxBuilder can handle all images whose filenames use any or all of these unreserved characters.

  • Registered: 2016-01-26
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Re: Bug: Captions with single quotes/question marks break gallery [SOLVED]

Thanks Steven.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
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Re: Bug: Captions with single quotes/question marks break gallery [SOLVED]

You're welcome.

Just for the record, even though I still would not recommend using special or reserved characters within file names, we are looking into the possibility of having JuiceboxBuilder accept #, ? and ' characters (although problems may still occur on certain web servers when using these characters).