Android app: colon causes text to become "null" when using translate via share intent

szendo

When using Androis's share intent to open Kagi Translate and the selected text
a) starts with a colon or
b) contains a colon and a space somewhere before that
then the text to be translated turns into "null".

For example, when opening https://help.kagi.com/kagi/translate/ in the browser and selecting the first bullet point in the features "Vast Language Support: Translate between more than 248 languages", when sharing it to translate it turns to "null".

I narrowed it down to either starting with a colon or having a space somewhere before the colon:

"Language Support:" turns into "null"
" Support:" turns into "null"
"Support:" works
":" turns into "null"
" :" turns into null (I tested this one by creating a note in my note taking app and trying to share that, not from a website)

Steps to reproduce:

Select text matching criteria
Pick "Share" in the floating menu
Pick "Kagi Search" > "Translate"

The text entered will be "null" instead of what was selected.

I expect the selected text to be entered into the translate field.

szendo

I found these threads which might or might not be related to this bug:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/4998-kagi-breaks-after-some-non-alphanumeric-queries
https://kagifeedback.org/d/4467-summarizer-does-not-summarize-text-if-the-first-word-has-a-colon

In particular text following a question mark seems to cause all text following it passes through some URL encoding process

"hello?" turns into "hello?="
"hello??" turns into "hello?%3F="
"hello? hello" turns into "hello?+hello="
"hello? this & that" turns into "hello?+this+=&+that=
"hello? a+b=c" turns into "hello?+a+b=c"

I could not find any weird behavior with "|", however the URL encoding behavior gave me another idea: URI fragments
And sure enough, text after a "#" character (and the "#" character itself) gets erased.

Ratik

Good find! I'll look into this.

Ratik

@szendo I initially misunderstood this issue to be with the Kagi Translate Android app. I couldn't reproduce the issue on my end and realised that the issue you're referring to is with the Kagi Search app.

We'll look into the Search app having this issue. In the meantime, perhaps take the Kagi Translate app for a spin? 😉

szendo

Yes, the issue is with the Search app. It's when using the "Share" option in the menu, not "Translate with Kagi".
I don't think the Translate app was available to me when I reported the issue, but now I can see/download it so I'm giving it a go (as a sidenote: it would be nice if the new translate app also handled Intent.ACTION_SEND, not just Intent.ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT, as there are some contexts where text selection is not possible but sharing is)

Ratik

Yup, make sense. Will add support for Intent.ACTION_SEND.