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.
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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.