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[Melissa Newman <1500194@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The default for entering multiple tags is to use a space.  This causes a
problem if the tag should contain a space.  I have two tags "George
Washington" and "US President".  I tried the following methods:

* "George Washington", "US President" --> Mahara thought that the quotes were part of the tag.  Mahara should remove the quotes.
* George Washington, US President --> This method work, or at least it seems to work.

But the problem is that the documentation says that tags are supposed to
be separated by a space.  Comma also seems to work as a separator.  But
when a space is part of a tag, it gets confusing.  Usually when an item
is in quotes, a program like Google Search takes everything within the
quotes, but strips out the quotes.  Mahara does not seem to be doing
that.

I have also seen problems with trying to search my multiple tags not
work properly.  I don't know if this has to do with the fact that the
original tags were added by using a comma as  a separator instead of a
space separator.

Mahara Version: 15.04
OS: Windows
Database: Mysql

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500194

Title:
  Adding multiple tags with spaces is confusing

Status in Mahara:
  New

Bug description:
  The default for entering multiple tags is to use a space.  This causes
  a problem if the tag should contain a space.  I have two tags "George
  Washington" and "US President".  I tried the following methods:

  * "George Washington", "US President" --> Mahara thought that the quotes were part of the tag.  Mahara should remove the quotes.
  * George Washington, US President --> This method work, or at least it seems to work.

  But the problem is that the documentation says that tags are supposed
  to be separated by a space.  Comma also seems to work as a separator.
  But when a space is part of a tag, it gets confusing.  Usually when an
  item is in quotes, a program like Google Search takes everything
  within the quotes, but strips out the quotes.  Mahara does not seem to
  be doing that.

  I have also seen problems with trying to search my multiple tags not
  work properly.  I don't know if this has to do with the fact that the
  original tags were added by using a comma as  a separator instead of a
  space separator.

  Mahara Version: 15.04
  OS: Windows
  Database: Mysql

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