Mylot tags do not support the £ sign
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
April 7, 2017 12:48pm CST
I discovered this purely by chance. Recently I submitted a discussion concerning the new £1 coin issued in Britain. As part of the discussion I used the £ sign in the main text, the title and also a tag. It was shortly afterwards that I noticed the tag which should have read “£1 coin” actually stated “1 coin”.
Assuming this to be a typing error on my behalf, I edited the post in order to amend the tag. However the £ sign still did not appear, despite several attempts.
I would have presumed that the tags would support the same characters and symbols as the body of text or the title, although this does not appear to be the case.
I find myself curious as to whether other members have had similar issues with other symbols.
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14 responses
@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
7 Apr 17
Not really, but I haven't been too active lately and since I use a desktop, I tihnk the tags would accept all symbols on the keyboard, because it doesn't have symbols like phones or tablets have.
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
7 Apr 17
@Asylum Oh, what I meant was, on my desktop keyboard, there is no sign like that, not as far as I can see.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Apr 17
@Carmelanirel2 That is quite likely, but of course I have a British keyboard so the symbol is essential.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
8 Apr 17
From comments here I see symbols do not post not just your pound sign. See I cannot even post that sign here
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
8 Apr 17
@allknowing I still wanted to add one to the tags.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
8 Apr 17
It hasn't happened to me.I doubt if the $ sign can appear in the tag box.
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
7 Apr 17
symbols show for a while as tags then they go away once you refresh.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Apr 17
@Mike197602 Not when you are discussing a £1 coin.
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@Mike197602 (15504)
• United Kingdom
7 Apr 17
@Asylum maybe...but I think symbols as tags are pretty much useless.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Apr 17
Well I tagged my own comment with the $ sign so we shall see if it works?
I have never tried to use a symbol, as far as I can recall, to tag.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Apr 17
@Asylum It is really odd as it showed up for me, and now it is gone...
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Apr 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum Oh silly girl, no wonder you cannot find your way back.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 17
@JolietJake No, it is above the 3 key. I also have the $ sign, which is above the 4 key.
Since $ is a very popular world currency and £ is our currency, we have a use for both.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 17
@JolietJake My # key is to the right of the number keys.
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@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
11 Apr 17
I must admit I have never noticed although I have never used the £ sign in a heading.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
12 Apr 17
@garymarsh6 That may be a good point because considering the age of my keyboard it must be an old £.
@garymarsh6 (23979)
• United Kingdom
11 Apr 17
@Asylum I wonder if it was an old £ rather than the new £ you were using???
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Apr 17
I don't know about all those other symbols used and I'm not really sure that I've seen many even in the titles or body of the text, but I do know that when we use an apostrophe it will change it to '039' or something like that in place of the ' . Bubblews did the same thing and I think that's common for other sites too. If I think about it I try to remember to spell out the words rather than use the apostrophe. At least on mylot it stays what it's supposed to be for the title whereas on bubblews it would switch to match the url.
One thing I've noticed before mylot upgraded and even now is that even though tagging is allowed in the comments it doesn't work correctly. I brought that to bugsy's attention a couple of months ago and he said he'd look into it, but it doesn't seem to be on the front burner yet since it still doesn't work. What it does when you use tags in the comments is it will show any posts using those same tags but your comment doesn't show up with the posts.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
8 Apr 17
hmmm, but i wonder why i can see the pound sign now at the title of your discussion, but i guess you have to put the word 'pound' to signify the sign on tags.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
7 Apr 17
I don't think the tags really show special characters, will they? I don't know, i never tried.
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