Widget name with spaces or other special characters

Recently, when editing a widget name that contains spaces or other special characters, they are replaced using percentage encoding... then the name is displayed with the percentage characters. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[dpb]

Show us an example of the process by which this happened...and which release/OS?

[Gonzalo Palarea]

https://thingspeak.com/channels/498344

The last widget named "Name Test". It shows as Name%20Test

In all other gauge widgets, if I try to edit the name containing a space, same thing. Weird thing is I had them with spaces and it was working OK.

[Gonzalo Palarea]

If I edit them again I can see the name was saved with the percentage encoding.

[Christopher Stapels]

We are aware of this issue and are working on a fix. We will let you know here when the fix is completed.

[dpb]

Looks like the present workaround would be to replace the blanks with underscores. Not quite as neat, but probably better than '%20'.

This is typical URL-type encoding to avoid embedded blanks probably from whence the symptom arises...

[Gonzalo Palarea]

Good idea with the underscores to replace spaces... for other symbols not quite... for example I wanted to include a backslash too, but that one also gets changed to URL-type encoding. Good to hear it will be fixed soon.

Answer 1

[Vinod]

A fix for this has been deployed. Please let us know if you are still seeing spaces being replaced by %20, or other special characters are not being rendered correctly.

[Gonzalo Palarea]

It is now working correctly, thanks!