Appendix talk:Control characters

RFD discussion: September 2017–January 2018

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All Unicode control characters

Currently, control characters redirect to Appendix:Control characters. I think they should be deleted entirely. Wiktionary is not a Unicode database, and control characters have zero lexical value. However, they cause lots of technical problems whenever anyone needs to access these entries. Links to them don't work. If you enter them into the search bar, you get redirected but you can't get to the entry that you were redirected from, because links don't work. If you click "what links here" to see what entries redirect to Appendix:Control characters, you can click on them there either. Pywikibot throws an exception for an invalid title. How we're actually supposed to delete them is a mystery to me if we can't even get to them from Wiktionary or with a bot. —Rua (mew) 16:49, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

So, to be clear, you want us to delete redirects that are causing no harm and which are potentially impossible to delete? What is the point of this? Keep them just so we don't have to deal with this, and because it's not a bad thing to redirect characters which, technically speaking, are attested, to an informative appendix. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:41, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

You are not creative enough. Special:WhatLinksHere/Appendix:Control_characters has (edit) buttons :P —suzukaze (t・c) 22:48, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

@CodeCat: E.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%80%8B&action=delete. The technical means of deleting them are straightforward. I agree that we should keep them tho because someone will put these into a search bar. In fact, keeping them makes a lot less overhead because it ensures that someone won't recreate them (and then necessitate a tricky way of deleting them). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:21, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

• RFDO kept. Note to archiver: this should go to Appendix talk:Control characters. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 10:35, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Tag characters

Under the section called Language tags, it should mention that the characters, except for U+E0001, are used for emoji flag sequences that are not a combination of regional indicator characters (for example: The sequence U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0077 U+E006C U+E0073 U+E007F gives the Flag of Wales emoji, if supported on your device), and that the tag characters, with the exception of U+E0001, were undepreciated as of Unicode version 8.0. -GeniusWorkbench4622 21:14, 8 April 2024 (UTC)