Could someone tell me where I can change the tag display code so it will show hypenated words rather than stripping out the hyphens as it currently is?I need to be able to tag words like Lilac-crowned but when i save the tag hyphen is dissappearing and I am left with Lilaccrowned.I have tried using html code for - -in the tags but its still stripping it out. Would appreciate any help please.thanks

Any updates on this bug? It is really kind of annoying that it auto-generates new tags with the hyphen stripped out!

This bug is making problems for me too. Wish it could be fixed!

I can tell you what to hack to allow the hyphens, but I have no idea if there's any particular reason the hyphen is disabled, so use at your own risk.

In the /administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php file at around line 576 or so you'll find this line:

$tag = str_replace('-','',$tag);

Comment it out like so:

//$tag = str_replace('-','',$tag);

Well I spoke too soon on this patch, now that i've looked at more of it and actually did a test, I can see that the problem is more complicated, and seems to be related to the use of the JTable. I'll post a follow up on this issue.

David R. said:I can tell you what to hack to allow the hyphens, but I have no idea if there's any particular reason the hyphen is disabled, so use at your own risk.
In the /administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php file at around line 576 or so you'll find this line:

$tag = str_replace('-','',$tag);

Comment it out like so:

//$tag = str_replace('-','',$tag);

So I traced down everything that was preventing the saving of tags with hyphens. There are couple of other patches required. However, even though in my patch, you can save these tags, the tag cloud module is broken in that clicking on the tag with the hyphen does not properly find articles.

I don't have time to track down why this doesn't work right now, but if anyone badly wants the required patches to allow storing tags with hyphens, let me know and I'll list the files and changes later.

The rules for many languages dictate hyphens for a lot of words. And as tags are completely normal words, they also have to follow the rules of writing.

At the moment, I am having problems both in Brazilian Portuguese and in Norwegian. So I wish this one would be fixed in SVN as well...