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.
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 unpublished the article, adding the keyword to the metadata field 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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