Breadcrumbs link is still active after setting <nolink> to a menu item

After setting to a menu item, the link in the breadcrumbs is referencing "base_url/<nolink>."

Below is the code in function special_menu_items_init() --sites/all/modules/special_menu_items/special_menu_items.module:

This line of code if (strlen(strstr($crumb,'<nolink>')) > 0) { will never return true because <nolink> in $crumb is url-encoded, which means '%3Cnolink%3E'.

foreach($breadcrumb as $key => $crumb){
    if (strlen(strstr($crumb,'<nolink>')) > 0) {
      $crumb = strip_tags($crumb);
      $tag = variable_get('special_menu_items_nolink_tag', '<span>');
      $breadcrumb[$key] = special_menu_items_render_menu_item($tag, $crumb);      
    }
  }

I think it should be changed to if (strlen(strstr($crumb,urlencode('<nolink>'))) > 0) { instead.