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Language page not loading when special chars are in it, missing escape chars
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bianco_c
Jul 21, 2026

Hello,
i've found a few times books that have a wrong (non existing) language, that contains special characters, such as semicolon ;

If a user has read a book in this language, in their Stats page they will see this language listed, but when clicking on it, to see which are the books with that language, it will not load. This would be nice to have it fixed in order to be able to correct the languages in those books.

Some examples i found of these languages are:

Spanish; Castil
Italian ; latin

When clicking on the url for seeing the books in the stat page, it will try to open an url like this (i removed the user_id, but i can pass it privately if needed):

?user_id=&chart_type=Languages&label=italian ; latin&year=&read_status=Read

This url doesn't work and it won't load any book.
I tried modifying it in the browser by replacing the semicolon with %3b and it works:

?user_id=&chart_type=Languages&label=italian %3B latin&year=&read_status=Read

I think it would be nice to have this replacement for all common special characters so people can easily find the books with the wrong info in their read list

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Nadia
Jul 23, 2026

Thank you for this post. There's a lot we need to do to improve our language data. For now, please report individual cases to support@thestorygraph.com.

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