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Subject: Re: Special Characters In Tags
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:19:11 +0200
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Hi aditya,

aditya siram <aditya.siram@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> Are special characters allowed in tags? 

The standard regexp for matching tags is ":[[:alnum:]_@#%:".
So no, special characters are not allowed, especially "&" and
parentheses, and there is no escape character to allow them.

Sorry!

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 Bastien