Article keywords with special characters automatically modified

We are currently operating on OJS 3.4. One of our journals has published their newest issue which includes an article with several keywords including “LGBTQIA2S+” which has led to a puzzling discovery. Once the issue was published, all keywords appeared on the article record page, however, the “+” at the end of the aforementioned keyword does not appear. Instead, the keyword displays as “LGBTQIA2S” as though OJS does not support keywords that include special characters such as a plus symbol. Can someone confirm if this is the case and/or provide any recommendations? If this is the case, will the issue be resolved in a future version of OJS? Thanks in advance.

@asmecher:

I can see that there are some previous issues related to this: OJS3: special characters in "keywords" metadata field in the dashboard · Issue #2299 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub

But it may not have covered all special characters such as this one?

Thoughts?

-Roger
PKP Team

Hi @nwojcik,

I just tried this locally and couldn’t reproduce the problem; can you provide any more complete reproduce steps? What theme are you using?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi @asmecher, Interesting. The theme used by the initial journal in question is the Manuscript (Default child theme). I also experienced this with another journal using the Manuscript theme. I also just tested this by replicating the issue in two other journals, one which uses the Bootstrap 3 Base Theme (Journal) theme and the other which uses the Bootstrap 3 Base Theme (Readable) themes. In both cases I received the same results.

Hi @nwojcik,

Could you try replicating the behaviour in our test-drive install?

https://ojs34.testdrive.publicknowledgeproject.org

Thanks,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Interesting. I have replicated the behavior in the test-drive install with a successful result (see https://ojs34.testdrive.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/testdrive-journal/article/view/711). The steps I took in the test-drive install are identical to that of the journals in our portfolio: logged into the journal dashboard > navigated to the back issue and located the published article > unpublished the article, adding the keyword to the metadata field > republished the article.

Hi @nwojcik,

Hmm, if you aren’t already, all I can suggest is updating to the most recent 3.4.0-x build.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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