Incorrect handling of special character in custom dimension values

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Incorrect handling of special character in custom dimension values #17119

Open Grolleau opened 3 years ago

Grolleau commented 3 years ago

Expected Behavior

Special characters contained in custom dimension should be supported

Current Behavior

specials characters are correctly displayed in visits log
specials characters are not displayed in custom dimension report
opening segmented visits log from custom dimension report doesn't load any data

Steps to Reproduce

create a custom dimension
push a value with a special character (ex: '+')
open Visitors / \<custom dimension name>

Environment

Matomo Analytics Cloud

tsteur commented 3 years ago

Thanks for creating this bug report @Grolleau I had a quick look in the code but not sure yet where this happens. Maybe it's a more of a generic issue.