[Bug]: Glob implementation incomplete

[mm12]

Checklist

• I am using an up-to-date version.
• I have read the documentation.
• I have searched existing issues.

TagStudio Version

Alpha 9.5.6

Operating System & Version

Win11

Description

Glob does not work with characters that would allow more advanced searches. A cursory look at the symptoms makes it seem like strip_punctuation might be being called on the glob pattern. This is made more complicated by the amount of variation languages/libraries and shells have of glob, vs something more concrete like regex.

One or more of the following actions should take place:

1. Resolve the issue allowing special characters in glob patterns
2. Update tests to ensure glob rules do not fail
3. Update documentation to specify which glob syntax types are and are not allowed
4. Give the user meaningful error messages that may help if they are using an alternate glob syntax

Expected Behavior

Glob should correctly match the raw user-input pattern.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a library with a path named in the format text-here-『space separated list of tags』. It doesn't matter what character you pick to enclose them, as long as it works on your filesystem
2. Search for items with a given tag. Note that since there are not spaces around the start and end items, the appropriate regex is [『\s]tag[\s』]. The equivalent glob search may look like:

• path:*{『, }tag{ ,』}* -> fails due to , and {}
• path:*@(『| )tag@( |』)* -> fails due to ()
• path:*[『]tag[ 』]* (fails to to [])
  or using [:space:] instead of a literal space.

Result: Invalid search syntax

Logs

2025-12-04 00:03:59 [error ] [QtDriver] Could not update BrowsingState error=Syntax Error 8->8: Syntax Error
2025-12-04 00:29:28 [error ] [QtDriver] Could not update BrowsingState error=Syntax Error 8->8: expected TokenType.EQUALS found TokenType.SBRACKETC
2025-12-04 00:22:41 [error ] [QtDriver] Could not update BrowsingState error=Syntax Error 10->10: Syntax Error

[Computerdores]

These errors are caused by a syntax error in your query (as the error also states), the way to do queries like that is to enclose them in quotes (e.g. path:"[AC]*"¹). This escaping is also mentioned in the documentation².

Footnotes

1. this would be any file path that starts with A or C, see the glob(7) man page or wikipedia for a syntax explanation ↩

2. granted, it doesn't mention special characters directly, but it is clear enough imo ↩

[mm12]

Of course its glob(7), which means no option groups. Unfortunate.

path:"*『*?( )tag?( )*』*" should match:
blah『tag』blah
blah『tag blah』blah
blah『blah tag』blah
blah『blah tag blah』blah
while not matching:
blah tag blah『blah blah blah』blah