Forum: Typo strange handling of tags that use the '.' character

Hi folks,

I've been running http://gridengine.info off of Typo for a while now,
thanks for a nice package!

Because my site tracks a particular open source software product I
sometimes need to put version numbers into article tags for easy
characterizing.

Prior to the most recent Typo upgrade, tags like "6.3" did not work at
all, something about Rails or Typo can't handle the "." character.

Now running the latest Typo I see something odd ...

Tags that use multiple "." characters get remapped to "-":

6.2.0 becomes a tag called "6-2-0" on Typo

But a tag named "6.2" is left unmodified, with no funky rewriting.

As a test that proves the issue I added tags for "6.2.0" and "6.2" to
the following post:

http://gridengine.info/2008/08/06/t-shirt-contest

... the "6.2.0" tag is handled via changing "." to "-" but the "6.2"
tag is left unchanged and does not work.

Is the use of "." chars in tags an issue with Rails in general or
should I write up an Issue against the Typo issue tracker?

-Chris

Le 6 août 08 à 19:23, Chris Dagdigian a écrit :

> Prior to the most recent Typo upgrade, tags like "6.3" did not work  
> As a test that proves the issue I added tags for "6.2.0" and "6.2"  
> -Chris
Hello,

first, sorry for not replying faster, I was in holliday and got
internet access only tonight. Trying to answer the pile of mails
that's waiting for me.

This all comes from a basic thing I forgot to do before releasing.

I was quite pissed off with Typo not andling my cool web2.0 tag just
because it was actually looking for a web2.0 file, and not for a page
named web2.0. So I added the same behaviour as categories : replace
the '.' with a '-' which actually works. I just incidentaly forgot to
do a proper migration to change your '.' in '-' with the proper 301
redirects. I add this to the TODO for the 5.1.3 bugfix release which
may come as soon as I'm really back from holliday.

Cheers,
Frédéric

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