Issue with VBSEO_URL_TAGS_FILTER when set to "1"

Some of my tags consist of more than a single word, and I didn't like the space(s) in the Tags URLs, so I did the following:

I changed /vbseo/resources/xml/config.xml

from

Code:

<name>VBSEO_URL_TAGS_FILTER</name>
<value>0</value>

to

Code:

<name>VBSEO_URL_TAGS_FILTER</name>
<value>1</value>

The above procedure does successfully achieve the goal of replacing empty space with a separator character.

However, now I observed that when accessing URLs of non-existent tags, instead of receiving the expected message:

No content has been tagged with 'whatever'.

the URL does resolve(!), and I end up at mydomain.com/tags/

I view this as a potential issue, as a competitor could point links to a site with bad words in URLs, and the URL would resolve, instead of 404.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That setting set to replace non english characters and it is not advised to enable it as Tag keywords is set as main id within tag table.

So you advise not to enable it, but then my tag URLs will contain spaces (%20). Is there any way to substitute spaces with a separator (-) character?

Unfortunately no , and you should not do that as the following tags will return single result "key-word" "key word"

Thanks, Mark. I switched back to:

Code:

<name>VBSEO_URL_TAGS_FILTER</name>
<value>0</value>

I will live with the space character in the URL.