Yes - thanks for keeping me honest (my initial tests were invalid - I've since edited the reply).
github.com/forem/forem/issues/14745 I opened an issue to clarify the changes expected - unless we encounter technical reasons to prohibit those characters there shouldn't be a reason not to extend the valid set of characters.
I think enforcing the "medial joins must be between characters" rule is probably harder to do strictly than it's worth to get right. I imagine permitting "joiner" characters anywhere in an an otherwise valid string will be permissive, slightly wrong, but also removes the blocking validation from the :alnum: class.
Regarding hyphens - I feel like there's probably some overlap between spelling requirements (English also has words which should be spelled with hyphens, like brother-in-law or twenty-two), and an assumption that tags are "simple" and not composed of phrases. I acknowledge the validity of the language support requirement, I think I'll need to discuss internally with our product team to determine how much that opens the possibility of "really-long-tags-made-of-full-sentences" in a way that's not desired. I don't have a personal opinion about that, but it might be a surprising or unwanted change to an existing and intentional restriction.
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Yes - thanks for keeping me honest (my initial tests were invalid - I've since edited the reply).
github.com/forem/forem/issues/14745 I opened an issue to clarify the changes expected - unless we encounter technical reasons to prohibit those characters there shouldn't be a reason not to extend the valid set of characters.
I think enforcing the "medial joins must be between characters" rule is probably harder to do strictly than it's worth to get right. I imagine permitting "joiner" characters anywhere in an an otherwise valid string will be permissive, slightly wrong, but also removes the blocking validation from the
:alnum:class.Regarding hyphens - I feel like there's probably some overlap between spelling requirements (English also has words which should be spelled with hyphens, like brother-in-law or twenty-two), and an assumption that tags are "simple" and not composed of phrases. I acknowledge the validity of the language support requirement, I think I'll need to discuss internally with our product team to determine how much that opens the possibility of "really-long-tags-made-of-full-sentences" in a way that's not desired. I don't have a personal opinion about that, but it might be a surprising or unwanted change to an existing and intentional restriction.