Identifier with comma

[leastcommonancestor]

I have an identifier that contains a commma. It should be translated to URL.
I tried percent encoding, i.e. in place of the comma I used "%2C", but the resulting URL had "%252C", i.e. the percent sign got encoded. I do not see how to escape the comma in the identifier. Furthermore, I think that percent encoding should be supported - in some way.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

If you want to enter an identifier with a comma in it, right click on
the identifiers field and choose "Edit identifiers in a dedicated
window"

If you dont want to do that, you can also use the | symbol in the
identifiers field as a stand-in for comma (it will be interpreted as a
comma when you click on the url in the book details panel)

 status fixreleased

[leastcommonancestor (leastcommonancestor)]

Thank you for your quick response. But in both cases the "|" character
is url encoded to "%7C" in the resulting url, which does not work.

Greetings

LCA

On 02.07.2018 07:35, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> If you want to enter an identifier with a comma in it, right click on
> the identifiers field and choose "Edit identifiers in a dedicated
> window"
>
> If you dont want to do that, you can also use the | symbol in the
> identifiers field as a stand-in for comma (it will be interpreted as a
> comma when you click on the url in the book details panel)
>
> status fixreleased
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Fix Released
>

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Works for me, steps I tried:

1) Click edit metadata
2) In the Ids box type: url:http://example.com/a|b
3) Click OK
4) Right click the test.com entry in the book details panel and choose,
"Copy link address"
5) Paste the copied address in an editor, which is:
http://example.com/a,b

[leastcommonancestor (leastcommonancestor)]

This works for me, too – with url-identifiers. However, I have e.g. a
rule defined to convert foobar:xyz to http://foobar.com/xyz.
There, foobar:x,y will result in http://foobar.com/x%7Cy.

On 02.07.2018 08:16, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> Works for me, steps I tried:
>
> 1) Click edit metadata
> 2) In the Ids box type: url:http://example.com/a|b
> 3) Click OK
> 4) Right click the test.com entry in the book details panel and choose,
> "Copy link address"
> 5) Paste the copied address in an editor, which is:
> http://example.com/a,b
>

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

What rule?

[leastcommonancestor (leastcommonancestor)]

Preferences/Look & Feel/Book Details/Create rules to convert identifiers:
Key: wpen
Template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{id}

Identifier: wpen:Gun|_with_Occasional_Music
Resulting URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun%7C_with_Occasional_Music

On 02.07.2018 08:41, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> What rule?
>

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased

[leastcommonancestor (leastcommonancestor)]

Thank you for the quick fixing. However,  the feature that in place of
comma the vertical bar may be used, should be mentioned somewhere in the
documentation. I tried searching for "identifier comma escape" and
"identifier comma" but could not find it.

Greetings

LCA

On 02.07.2018 10:21, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is
> usually released every alternate Friday.
>
> status fixreleased
>