librarything natter

[mvrdrk]

Now that I've converted all my English book titles and authors to their proper Chinese (in pre-mature anticipation of LT getting i18n character handling corrected), I've lost the ability to 'see' my books in many ways. It makes LT much less interesting. On the other hand, I've found the back door to combining tags so I can finally have some system commonality with my friends. You're now warned, I'll be trolling your tags to find things I can combine.

Comments

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

I tried to combine my MORIMOTO Shuw with your MORIMOTO Shuw 森本秀, but failed (presumably because I didn't hexcode the kanji in the tagging URL?).

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I think you failed because I already did it. And yes, you have to hex code things, but I think cut and paste hex codes it for me.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

AAfter having played with it, no you do not have to enter hex tags. I've been cutting and pasting from the url bar, so I'm getting hex automagically.

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

Then I think yes, you do need to enter hex to get a tag which include kanji to combine. I wasn't pasting from a URL. I copied the tags themselves into my bar (adding plus signs), and they would not combine.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

I did that too without the plus signs and had no trouble.

What I found is that sometimes a space works and sometimes a plus works (sometimes I choose to url-safe the space with %20). Most of your stuff requires a plus, which I discovered by looking in the browser url bar. Most of my stuff takes %20 or space. Mismatches cause the thing to fail. My guess: what we're seeing is the difference between unicode space and ascii space. That's why I resorted to using the browser url bar display rather than just cutting and pasting from the tags page.

I think I've gone thru all the authors we have in common, though I could have missed some.