Angle brackets in image alt texts should be auto-encoded

Question

For example if I try to link like this:

![image][1]

It looks like this:

But if I try this:

![image>you][3]

It ends up jumbled:
the way it will look

Ha!

It seems as I have broken the html.

This should be fixed if people want to be able to have > in their alt tags

Other fun with the bug:

![image><h1>how is this possible?</h1><a href="#">Weird</a>, don'tcha think?<a ][4]

Becomes:
second error

@balpha haha true true. but the issue with > is still present :-) — amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A, Dec 8 '11 at 18:26
@balpha see update. an issue with any direction you put those brackets. you can put full html in there! — amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A, Dec 8 '11 at 18:31
How is that different? That's the same thing. The HTML sanitizer eats everything between opening and closing angle brackets that doesn't look valid. And an img tag that ends in the middle of the alt attrbute certainly doesn't :) — balpha, Dec 8 '11 at 18:35

balpha · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-12 14:38:59Z

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Both changes are in the next build.

answered Dec 12 '11 at 14:38

balpha

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