diff --git a/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js b/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js
index 3d8e9696..4cae40e3 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js	
@@ -541,7 +541,6 @@ var TagUIActions = actions.Actions({
 			return browse.makeLister(null, function(path, make){
 				var tags = that.data.getTags(gids)
 				var tagset = that.data.tags
-				var dict = tagset.dict
 
 				// tags...
 				// XXX make this a group...
@@ -592,14 +591,8 @@ var TagUIActions = actions.Actions({
 						var tagged = tag[3]
 						tag = tag[0]
 
-						var text = dict ?
-							tag.split(tagset.PATH_SEPARATOR)
-								.map(function(s){
-									return s.split(tagset.SET_SEPARATOR)
-										.map(function(t){
-											return (dict[t] || [t])[0] })
-							   			.join(':') })
-								.join('/')
+						var text = tagset.translateTag ?
+							tagset.translateTag(tag)
 							: tag
 
 						return make(text, {
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js
index b248af49..1fd05b53 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js	
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ var BaseTagsClassPrototype = {
 	// NOTE: do not include 'g' flag here, it will make the RE objects
 	// 		stateful which will yield very unpredictable results from 
 	// 		general system.
+	// XXX need separators as attrs too... 
 	PATH_SEPARATOR: /[\\\/]+/,
 	SET_SEPARATOR: /:+/,
 	COMBINED_SEPARATOR: /[:\\\/]+/,
@@ -1682,6 +1683,7 @@ object.makeConstructor('BaseTags',
 // XXX EXPERIMENTAL...
 // 		...this is a bit too generic, we need to save dict values only 
 // 		when tagging or adding tags...
+// 		...also need to clear the dict when untagging...
 var TagsWithDictPrototype = {
 	__proto__: BaseTags,
 
@@ -1721,6 +1723,28 @@ var TagsWithDictPrototype = {
 
 		return res
 	},
+	translateTag: function(...tags){
+		var that = this
+		var dict = this.dict
+		tags = normalizeSplit(tags)
+
+		var res = dict != null ?
+			tags
+				.map(function(path){
+					return path
+						.split(that.PATH_SEPARATOR) 
+						.map(function(set){
+							return set
+								.split(that.SET_SEPARATOR)
+								.map(function(tag){
+									return (dict[tag] || [tag])[0] })
+								.join(':') })
+						.join('/') })
+			: tags
+
+		return arguments.length == 1 && typeof(arguments[0]) == typeof('str') ?
+			res[0]
+			: res },
 }