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On tags and characters

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Just a quick one to say that tagging systems need to accept as varied a set of characters as they can. BlinkList for instance doesn’t allow “C#” as a tag as the # is not allowed. This makes tagging any C# links difficult as I have to use “csharp” instead. Same goes for Yahoo! which becomes Yahoo.

About the only character I can think of that should be withheld is the comma to make multiple tags easy to enter. I have never run across needing to add in a tag with a comma.

Tagging systems need to be flexible for other languages too. Can yours handle Chinese characters?

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