Tags with spaces create wrong links

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Tags with spaces create wrong links

1bnielsen
Oct 21, 2023, 2:11 pm

Probably an old bug, but I couldn't find a bug report about it.
Or maybe: https://www.librarything.com/topic/78747 ?

Anyway, I was looking for a tag:
https://www.librarything.com/tag/knight%20of%20faith

On this page @eromsted is credited with having added recently tagged "Fear and trembling and the Book on Adler" but the text "knight of faith" links to https://www.librarything.com/tag/knight+of+faith
i.e. any tags with spaces in them links to a tag with + rather than space in between the words. And more likely than not this link is to a non-existant tag, i.e. not very useful.

If someone can find an older bug report on the same subject please link to it in this thread and close this one as a duplicate. I just wanted to get it out of my hair :-)

2Maddz
Edited: Oct 21, 2023, 2:24 pm

>1 bnielsen: Are you thinking of this bug https://www.librarything.com/topic/334172#n8097473?

At one point I had to replace tag spaces with underscores.

3bnielsen
Oct 21, 2023, 4:02 pm

>2 Maddz: Maybe. That https://www.librarything.com/topic/334172 also points to another bug report https://www.librarything.com/topic/334022

Both 334172 and 334022 are triggered by the use of collections. And 334022 is closed as fixed.

So maybe this is a new bug. At least newly reported :-)

4MarthaJeanne
Edited: Oct 21, 2023, 4:12 pm

5bnielsen
Oct 21, 2023, 4:35 pm

>4 MarthaJeanne: Nice. Thanks for inter-linking the two bug reports. I think fixing 350775 would also fix this, so I should close this one as a duplicate. Do you agree?

6kristilabrie
Oct 23, 2023, 7:21 am

Closing as a dupe, yep. We're aware of the issue, and hopefully can look at them sooner than later.

7bnielsen
Oct 23, 2023, 7:33 am

Yes, the two bug reports just describe two ways of triggering the same bug.