Goal name is truncated when ampersand is present #20174

Expected Behavior

I guess goal names / titles should accept a & character

Current Behavior

Everything after the "&" is scrapped when saving a goal.
My example:
2. Mikro: Klickar till etjänsten "Felanmälan&
When I try:
2. Mikro: Klickar till etjänsten "Felanmälan&syn"

Steps to Reproduce (for Bugs)

The demo environment do not allow me to enter goals.

Context

I'm trying to have ampersands and other special characters in the name of a goal

Your Environment

• Matomo Version: 4.13.0

• PHP Version: 7.4.32

• Server Operating System: Ubuntu LTS

• Browser: Brave (Chromium)

• Operating System: Macos 12.6.2

Hi @marcusosterberg,

The problem actually is not the ampersand. Goal names are limited to 50 chars. But special html chars like " or & are stored html encoded as " or &.
So goal names that reaches that limit (after encoding the html chars) are truncated to 50 chars. This currently might also break those encoded characters as they might get cut off.

I guess in general we should store those names unencoded in that database and ensure the name is encoded whereever it is used. Might be related or solvable with #11786