"Less than" sign < in title or text crashes the icon list

hm – i recognized that behavior too on reediting some textblocks –
or very often in headings from some alb elements f.e. inserting a softhypen – after reediting that alb again it is lost.

maybe the avia_ampersand function could redefine some special characters
f.e. i do allways want to have non-breaking dashes :

add_filter('avia_ampersand','non_breaking_hyphens');
function non_breaking_hyphens($content)
  {
    $content = str_replace("-","&#8209 ;",$content); 
    return $content;
}

maybe this could help

add_filter('avia_ampersand','translate_signs');
function translate_signs($content)
{
    $content = str_replace("<","<span class='special_amp'>&#60 ;</span>",$content);    
    $content = str_replace(">","<span class='special_amp'>&#62 ;</span>",$content); 
    $content = str_replace("&#60 ;","<span class='special_amp'>&#60 ;</span>",$content);    
    $content = str_replace("&#62 ;","<span class='special_amp'>&#62 ;</span>",$content); 
    return $content;
}

Lol : Boardsoft changes it immediately :

so remove the space to the semicolon

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Guenni007.

So i think the question is how to only replace those strings in frontend and not in backend.
if in shortcodes the &lt ; and &gt ; are seen the page shows correct – but on editing the iconlist again these strings are translated and the troubles start.

i tested it ( ampersand method ) – but it does not work as expected.

Maybe the other Günter can have a look at that. We need a coder here

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Guenni007. Reason: Günter needed

on using the entities it works the first time – but if you open the iconlist again all less than signs are gone and the iconlist in frontend does not work anymore. So no chance for a second edit or to add list points here.