[wp-hackers] Change Tag Delimiter from a comma to a semicolon

[Thomas Belknap]

There are certainly plenty of situations where the comma would be helpful to
have back as a non-defining character. It might be worth it to specify that
quotation marks can also define tag boundaries. That way, something within
quotation marks does not have any internal characters read as delimiters.

Makes sense to me.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Nathaniel Taintor <
goldenapplesdesign at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, yeah, there's always a workaround. But sometimes it does make sense
> from a user's perspective for the tags to include commas. In my case, I
> wasn't storing city, state; I was just storing city information. And for
> most people, "Washington, DC" is the name of the city, not just
> "Washington". Other cities - like "Seattle" or "Miami" - don't need a state
> indicator.
>
> In the same way if you were storing movie titles in a tags field, I would
> think you would probably want to use the actual title and not some
> sanitized
> version... that's what the slug is for.
>
> Than
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Belknap <
> dragonfly at dragonflyeye.net
> > wrote:
>
> > Why wouldn't you use "locations" and then cities and states as their own
> > tags? That way, you can use the intersection of two tags to determine
> > precisely what the user wants.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Nathaniel Taintor <
> > goldenapplesdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know, I had this same issue trying to use "cities" as a custom
> > > taxonomy, where entries like "Washington, DC" constantly gave me
> > problems.
> > > I
> > > think its a valid question. I took the lazy way out and renamed all my
> > city
> > > tags without commas, but I'd like to hear from anyone who took the time
> > to
> > > think it through and came up with a solution.
> > >
> > > Than
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Clarke <
> jer at simianuprising.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is pretty wacky man. I suggest you reconsider your decision to
> > > include
> > > > commas in tag names. Is it absolutely necessary? Would the text
> content
> > > > really not make sense without the comma? If you're tagging book/movie
> > > > titles
> > > > or something why not just skip commas, are you afraid of the hipster
> > > > title-spelling police?
> > > >
> > > > Have you considered using categories instead?
> > > >
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