"your tag contains invalid characters"

What character set are you using to encode the accented characters? I believe that all submissions should use UTF-8, so if you are using ISO8859-n (latin-n) then it might not work.

Quoth Russ:

To be honest I don't think we should have allowed spaces either.

That would have sucked if you had. Please don't remove the ability to use spaces in any event, I'd have to come up with single word tags for most stuff and I absolutely hate bunching words together. Yes, I also hate underscores. And CamelCase. And I don't even think you can use caps in tags.

Anyway it's good now. Thank you, please drive thru!

Quoth johnli:
Why is one word a bad thing. Much more clear and concice.

Not if you're not genre tagging, which I don't do a whole lot anyway. I'm not supporting the long drawn out sentence-like tags but a two, three, four words tag is fine.

Quoth Russ:
Yes, we only allow ASCII characters in tag names at the moment. The reasoning being that we don't have any foreign-language sites at the moment, and we're only officially targetting the english market.

Well, officially maybe, but it's quite obvious that you have people from all the world around here... (Besides, you do accept japanese yens for subscription, don't you ? ;))

Quoth Russ:
Allowing foreign characters in tags would just fragment and confuse tags even further (especially in cases like "j-pop").

In the help section of the tag editor, one example you give for a possible tag is "singers Sarah would like". So it's clear : basically each user can have his/her own tag. I like this concept, but I think that in a way, it was meant to be "fragmented" from the start. If you don't want that, then you simply don't want people to be able to create their own tags. Allowing the use of foreign characters is about the same as allowing the use of spaces : it does not really change the problem of "fragmentation". It gives more flexibility to the user, that's all. If spaces weren't allowed, people would use underscores (or dots, dashes...) instead. The situation would basically be the same, only a bit uglier and less user-friendly. (IMHO of course)

As far as I am concerned, even if I could use foreign characters in my tags (to have some tags "my own way"), I still would be very likely to use some "standard" tags as well (to keep connected with the community).

Quoth Russ:
Also, being confronted with a page full of garbage you can't read tends to be daunting.

It seems to me this would mainly occurr on the "tags" section of a user's profile. I don't think this would be that daunting. People are already used to find tags they don't really understand, even if they are written in perfect english.

Quoth spacefish:
Quoth Severian427:
Quoth spacefish:
Quoth johnli:
Why is one word a bad thing. Much more clear and concice.

Not if you're not genre tagging, which I don't do a whole lot anyway.
Even if you're just genre tagging, you can have "rock opera" which is quite different from "rock" AND "opera" IMO...

True but then I'm not against spaces. My nick starts with one, after all. /snort ;D

LOL!!! I wonder how many people are going to miss the joke on that one.....