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

John Blackbourn johnbillion+wp at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 18:25:00 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Thomas Belknap
<dragonfly at dragonflyeye.net> wrote:
> 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.

This makes a lot of sense and is an elegant approach. Flickr, for
example, uses spaces as its tag delimiters and lets you use "quotes
around multiple words" in order to allow tags with spaces in them. We
could do just the same to allow tags with commas in them.


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