Appended comma

If you use Power edit to change the language of a book you obtain the primary language with an appended comma

Reporting that bug still exists two years later. So, um, bump.

Since this thread was started before the bug-tracking features were added to the Bug Collectors group, you should start a new thread for it and link to this one (if for nothing else so that Tim can see how old the problem is).

It's been bugged recently, actually.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/99519

Well...a month ago. Which is a lot more recent than two years ago.

Thanks, folks. I missed the other thread. This must be one of the oddest sort-of-bug-trackers that I've ever seen.

I'll let this thread rest, then, and wait for the other one to ripen.

Heh. I think you came in just about the time it turned from just a lot of topics to an actual sort-of-bug-tracker...it works pretty well, actually, and suits the way Tim et al work.

SOLVED:

Set secondary language to "(blank)", not the default "(no change)". Comma gone.

Counterintuitive on the UI side but not really a bug.

Ouch. Pain in the rear for my 500+ xxx language books...but it's a fix. Thanks!

8> It was actually fairly simple! At least, the power edit way of doing it went a lot more quickly for the last ~100 I had to change, compared to the first ~100, which I did manually. If you have multiple pages, it'll of course take longer...

(Also, thank goodness for the "xxx" language filter from the statistics page for making it easy to select all!)

If you have multiple pages…

In power edit you can now select all of the results of a search even if they are on multiple display pages.

I hope that's what you meant.

I did not know that! And that is what I meant, multiple pages of results.

The last time I tried, it didn't work so well, but it's been ages (maybe a year?) since then.

'Ray! All done in 4-5 clicks. I'd forgotten Power Edit could do that...which is dumb, since it was Power Edit doing it that _made_ the extraneous comma. Thanks!