Aliasing nion → Ｎion
Link to alias

Reason:

All tags are lowercase, even for those that are proper nouns like names. If you follow both of the above forum-generated links, they both point to the same page.

imagoober said:
All tags are lowercase, even for those that are proper nouns like names. If you follow both of the above forum-generated links, they both point to the same page.

I'm aware, but that's not a regular uppercase N, it's a ＳＰＥＣＩＡＬ ＣＨＡＲＡＣＴＥＲ. Did you actually click the links? They are different pages.

Whoops, wasn't paying close enough attention. My mistake.

In any case, why? I mean, how many are going to go "Oh, that special character that looks just like an 'N' is so important"?

imagoober said:
Whoops, wasn't paying close enough attention. My mistake.

In any case, why? I mean, how many are going to go "Oh, that special character that looks just like an 'N' is so important"?

It's how the artist has it on their page. And the tag is already in use, otherwise I probably wouldn't have brought it up.

Yeah, I didn't think that last post through too carefully.

IIRC names in Japanese text get Latin alphabet versions aliased to them, so this makes sense on that front as well.

\+1, in short

I think it should go the other way around. Things usually get aliased away from special characters/non-English because majority can't type them that way.

imagoober said:
Yeah, I didn't think that last post through too carefully.

IIRC names in Japanese text get Latin alphabet versions aliased to them, so this makes sense on that front as well.

\+1, in short

Opposite. We alias Japanese names to Latin names.
I'm going to see Nion and read Nion, typing of the N regardless. We may as well just use the standard unicode N.

+1 for the other way around. We alias to things that are easily typed with a typical latin-alphabet keyboard. In this case I don't think it matters for usability (a user who sees "Ｎion" will probably try to search "nion" if they don't know how to get that special character), but there's no need to make users worry that it might matter. As for "it's how the artist has it on its page", we have a longstanding policy of representing artist names differently to stick to easily typed tags (roughly every Asian artist, for example).

We do use latin->alternate font ailases from time to time.

Like symbols! You'll still be able to type the latin, but nobody will complain from the artist/fans side.

+1. The special character isn't a problem in this case; anyone who wants to search for this artist probably will just use "nion" instead of trying to type the alternate name. Like Random stated, this way we preserve the artist's preferences, in addition maintaining usability.

Using the special character in this case hurts my soul.

I wasn't even aware that I had one until now.

parasprite said:
Using the special character in this case hurts my soul.

I wasn't even aware that I had one until now.

Ｆｕｌｌ　ｗｉｄｔｈ　ａｌｐｈａｎｕｍｅｒｉｃ，　ｗｈｅｅ！
Seriously full width is ugly. Don't use it.

It doesn't matter how a name or term is styled; that's only an aesthetic, and the tag is written the way an ordinary person would (could) type it.

For instance, Lucky☆Star --> lucky_star.

It's also worth pointing out that some people can't display characters like ☆ and Ｎ. They show up as a box with a hexadecimal code instead. This also affects things like japanese characters and emojis.

What's more important, accuracy or compatibility?

FibS said:
For instance, Lucky☆Star --> lucky_star.

Or AC⚡DC -> ac/dc because a forward slash is as close to a lightning bolt as ascii gets.