From 9477fd7eba9bda6813b65c6c54380904892ca35e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tobi <31960611+tsmethurst@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 16:03:00 +0100 Subject: [feature] Allow partial-word hashtags using non-breaking spaces (#3606) * [feature] Allow partial-word hashtags using non-breaking spaces * update docs --- docs/user_guide/posts.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/user_guide/posts.md') diff --git a/docs/user_guide/posts.md b/docs/user_guide/posts.md index 1f718cfae..c45ad4bcb 100644 --- a/docs/user_guide/posts.md +++ b/docs/user_guide/posts.md @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ For accessibility reasons, it is considerate to use upper camel case when you're You can include as many hashtags as you like within a GoToSocial post, and each hashtag has a length limit of 100 characters. +!!! tip + To end a hashtag, you can simply use a space, for example in the text `this #soup rules`, the hashtag is terminated by a space so `#soup` becomes the hashtag. However, you can also use a pipe character `|`, or the unicode characters `\u200B` (zero-width no-break space) or `\uFEFF` (zero-width space), to create "partial-word" hashtags. For example, with input text `this #so|up rules`, only the `#so` part becomes the hashtag. Likewise, with the input text `this #so​up rules`, which contains an invisible zero-width space after the o and before the u, only the `#so` part becomes the hashtag. See here for more information on zero-width spaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space. + ## Input Sanitization In order not to spread scripts, vulnerabilities, and glitchy HTML all over the place, GoToSocial performs the following types of input sanitization: -- cgit v1.2.3