Re: Vanishing dollar signs!

"Tancredi D'Onofrio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:mailman.56.1161938069.17193.xaraya_user-gn8pmO+6nsymdvSpIQae8A@public.gmane.org
>
> I'm having this hugely annoying problem with a specific Xaraya install on 
> a DreamHost server where each time my client (or I) enter a price with a 
> dollar sign before it, for example: $5.50, it vanishes and swallows the 
> first digit too! So in this example the resulting numbers displayed on the 
> page would be .50 rather than the proper $5.50
>
> These are the places I've tested this:
> WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE - latest version) window
> TinyMCE textarea without active editor
> Normal Article textarea (no WYSIWYG editor)
>
> All produce the same result. Do I need to set something up differently, 
> its very puzzling? I'm sure this worked before moving to DreamHost too. 
> Anyone got any bright ideas?
>
> Oh and if I encode the dollar sign as an HTML entity it works fine, except 
> next time I go to edit the document the entity has en-encoded itself and I 
> get the same problem!

What other patterns disappear? How about:

$
$$
$foo
0.50
$!

My guess is that some kind of filter or anti-hack feature is removing them 
on POST or GET submission of a form.

?