Tags with special characters not working

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Tags with special characters not working

1Karlstar
jan 8, 2022, 1:14 pm

I have two tags with '&' in the tag. For both of them today, from the 'Your tags' list, if I click on either of those tags, it says no books found and the '&' is replaced with %26 in the tag on the results page.

Also, I have lower case versions of two tags, for example, 'Fantasy' and 'fantasy'. When I click on the lower case tag from the Your Tags list, it brings up the same list as the upper case tag.

2Maddz
jan 8, 2022, 2:30 pm

3Karlstar
jan 8, 2022, 3:25 pm

>2 Maddz: Thanks Maddz. Looks like the solution is to remove the &.

Any thoughts on the caps vs. no caps tag issue?

4Maddz
jan 8, 2022, 3:58 pm

>3 Karlstar: Hi Karlstar, unfortunately no. I've seen no functional difference between lowercase and uppercase in any site searches. I would suggest you edit your tags to be 'Fantasy_UC' and 'fantasy_lc'. (You need to include the '_' as otherwise the system thinks you're doing a tagmash and fails to return any results.)

5Karlstar
jan 8, 2022, 4:05 pm

>4 Maddz: Seems like it would be most productive for me to just ignore it, since I can't even find the books with the lower case tag.

6Maddz
Bewerkt: jan 8, 2022, 4:30 pm

>5 Karlstar: It's easy enough to change the tag itself rather than the tag on each book.

Go to 'Your books' and make sure you have 'All collections' selected in the drop-down.
Then go to the third button on the row and make sure 'Tags' are selected. Click on the button, and you'll get a page with all the tags you've used.
Scroll to each of the versions of fantasy and hover - a new row will appear below the tag select 'Edit'.
Edit the tag in the pop-up; it will change all instances of that tag in your collection.

Now the interesting thing is that if I search my library for tag:*cd album, I get no results, but if I search on*cd, *cd album or i select the tag, then I get results. So it looks like the advanced search functionality is not parsing spaces correctly - instead of treating the tag as a single string, it's treating it as multiple strings. Sigh (I'll have to change all several hundred tags with spaces).

7Karlstar
jan 8, 2022, 10:30 pm

I thought of that later, that way of changing things just took a while to occur to me. I was trying to change it on the books, took me a while to wrap my head around changing the tag itself. Worked fine, lower case tags are gone.

8kristilabrie
jan 10, 2022, 8:50 am

Closing as duplicate (per >2 Maddz:)