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PDF Generation for Products with Special Characters in Brand Names

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, html
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start in seeddata/DataGenerator/Generators/ManualPdfConverter.cs at the FooterHtml property, then inspect the product generation prompt and reproduce a PDF using a brand name containing characters such as &. Confirm the chosen permanent approach preserves those characters correctly in the generated PDF and does not require the temporary replacement.

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Description

I encountered an issue while generating PDFs where some product brand names include special characters like &. To temporarily resolve this, I used .Replace("&", "&amp ;") in the FooterHtml property of Markdown2PdfOptions.

For a permanent fix, we can:

Update the Prompt: Adjust the product generation prompt to avoid names with special characters.
Use WebUtility.HtmlEncode: Automatically escape special characters (e.g., &, <, >) using WebUtility.HtmlEncode to handle them correctly in XML/HTML contexts.

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JavaScript
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