DataTables replaces the global filtering string " with " at initialisation time

BehoDouble

For example if i use :

$('#example').dataTable( {
"oSearch": {"sSearch": "\""}
} );

the filtering will display "
Same problem when bStateSave=true and the global filtering string is initialised with the string " previously used by the end user.


Maybe, in the function _fnFeatureHtmlFilter() (DataTables 1.9.4 and 1.10) :
$('input[type="text"]').val( oPreviousSearch.sSearch.replace('"','"') );
should be
$('input[type="text"]').val( oPreviousSearch.sSearch );

BehoDouble

In other words, jQuery $().val() already converts special characters to HTML entities.