Admin UI misrepresents how tags will be parsed

[kmcelwee]

The TaggableManager view through the admin UI suggests that multi-word tags will be parsed as one tag instead of split. A user can click "Add software engineering..." as a tag, and the UI will display that as one tag, but only after saving will it be split into "software" and "engineering". The raw text is "software engineering" and taggit documents that this will be parsed into "software" and "engineering" but there's no way for the user to see if they've correctly wrapped the tag in quotes.

Is there a way to ensure that the UI better mirrors _parse_tags? Or perhaps automatically appends a comma or wraps in quotes when "add [tag]" is selected from the dropdown?

A current workaround is documented on SO so that the parser better matches the UI:

def custom_tag_string(tag_string)
    return [t.strip(' "') for t in tag_string.split(",") if t.strip(' "')]