Discourse tags separated by two commas?

InvisibleMan78 · March 31, 2025, 7:09am

As you can see in this example, the keywords are separated by two commas:

or

I’m not sure if this is a Discourse problem…

IvanDobsky · March 31, 2025, 7:51am

That’s new. Happens to me too when I look at the overall summary list of topics.

RustyNova · March 31, 2025, 12:02pm

That’s recent, as it wasn’t doing it a week ago

chaban · March 31, 2025, 2:04pm

Seems it’s caused by this change

github.com/discourse/discourse

FEATURE: customizable tag separator with value transformer in proper HTML

main ← feature-tag-separator

opened 05:36PM - 06 Mar 25 UTC

awesomerobot

+92 -30

We were using CSS to add commas between tags like this: ![image](https://git…hub.com/user-attachments/assets/9de36cd1-35c5-4778-acb6-a39fb0dfaf48) 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: ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/289bcbe1-f93d-4bb3-856d-8a16a471b3b7)

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jesus2099 · March 31, 2025, 8:45pm

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

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.

jesus2099 · May 21, 2025, 8:49pm

It’s Ok now, isn’t it?
I don’t have any more double commas, on Firefox for Android, at least.

outsidecontext · May 21, 2025, 10:18pm

zas disabled the multilingual plugin again, hence the issue is gone.

That plugin really seems to be frequent cause of trouble. I actually don’t think it is really worth it, as the forums are primarily English. Even the occasional posts in other languages work usually well even without explicit support by the forums.