Double Underscores instead of One - Beta testing Movable Type

After a couple of crazy days, I'm actually excited about doing something web related. I'm in the process of getting ready to upgrade to the next version of Movable Type (once it goes into official release) and one of the things that's important to me is category organization. In the previous version (or should I say current version) of Movable Type, if I created a category called "Something & Something", Movable Type would created a folder "something-something". It technically should created a folder "something_something" but I made a one character change to the source code based on a blog posting I found on the web.

So in the current Beta version of Movable Type and the publishing settings, I’m getting "something__something" instead. See the double underscore? That's going to be a problem. I'm hoping it's something they fix. The good news is that the site that uses "&" in category names isn't public yet so there’s not crazy .htaccess to create at least. But that still could mean no "&" in my category names if they don't fix it – unless I can live with the double underscore. But then again, I actually want dashes and not underscores. I should go back and test to see if the dash option works correctly. I'm thinking this could have implications for other people who use special characters in their category names. Granted, it's probably not an earth shattering bug.

My bug report email has been sent on its way over the wires of the Internet along with a few screen shots and now it's just a watch-and-wait to see if I receive a response or if I just have to keep trying future nightly builds. It's exciting to be a part of the process.

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