Hello, I’m trying to create a tag that has a period in it (such as 1.0), but no matter what I try it ends up as 10. Any advice on what I’m doing wrong?

It’s been removing periods since 14 Oct 2016, and probably before that because the commit where it was last touched is called “loosen restrictions on chars in tags”. Maybe the tags were loaded from a script into the db or some other way outside of the UI. Interesting that it seems to be working… …

Create a tag with a period

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awesomerobot (Kris) March 25, 2019, 4:05pm 2

Tags generally only support underscores and hyphens — most other punctuation will be stripped out.

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Create a tag with a period

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