As you can see in this example, the keywords are separated by two commas:
I’m not sure if this is a Discourse problem…
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That’s new. Happens to me too when I look at the overall summary list of topics.
That’s recent, as it wasn’t doing it a week ago
chaban
March 31, 2025, 2:04pm
4
Seems it’s caused by this change
main ← feature-tag-separator
opened 05:36PM - 06 Mar 25 UTC
We were using CSS to add commas between tags like this:
but this is kind of a hacky way to add content and we've also ended up with a separate encoding issue side-effect
<img width="400" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dc155c69-1a3c-4f88-952c-fe1756e4cffe" />
So this avoids that whole thing by adding the commas in the HTML properly — this also unlocks a bonus feature of using our value transformer system so it's easy to change the separator like this:
```js
import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api";
export default apiInitializer((api) => {
api.registerValueTransformer("tag-separator", ({ value, context }) => {
return "|"
});
});
```
to get:
See also
Lists of tags on topics in Discourse are separated by commas by default. This isn’t changing, but how it’s implemented and how you can change it has: Previously we used a CSS pseudo element to add the commas, which isn’t ideal because the...
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Arkshine found out it was because of Multilingual Plugin that is (of course) still using the former CSS way of splitting tags with commas, while new Discourse version now uses a HTML way of splitting tags with commas.
@Zas , is this the plugin you mentioned you still had to upgrade, in MB meeting ?
Zas
April 1, 2025, 7:50am
6
Yes, still no news from devs though, see Multilingual Plugin 🌐 - #160 by das-g - Plugin - Discourse Meta
We had a problem with this plugin during last major update too.
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