thiemowmde added a comment.
Sorry for writing so much, but I feel there is an important lesson to learn here, despite this appearing like it would be a minor thing. I feel this highlights a quite fundamental misunderstanding. See, limiting the use of a character is, in a way, not different from limiting the gender property to be binary male/female, or limiting a city's major to be an instance of human, or limiting units to registered SI units only. All these ideas sound good at first glance. After all, you must be a human being to become the major of a city, don't you? You can't be anything but male or female, right? All units are convertible to SI, aren't they? A pipe character can't be anything but a separator character, or can it? The answer to all these questions is no. - I hope the gender example is obvious in 2019. - Wikidata knows a cat that was major of a city for a brief moment in history. - We got very precise measurements of ancient buildings that have been done in units we don't know exactly how to convert to SI. - A pipe character is a very old low-ASCII character that was put to use for a gazillion different things you could fill a book with. (Note: The "low" refers to the first 128 characters that have already been used on 7-bit computers in the 1960s.) Wikidata's answer to all this was, to this date, to not hard-code arbitrary limits, but be open by default, and fix mistakes //after// they happened. Supporting the full range of characters Unicode has to offer was, to this date, a consequence and important part of this "open by default" strategy. I can see reasons to have exceptions, e.g. security reasons, as mentioned already. But the issue discussed in this ticket here is certainly not one of these reasons, if you ask me. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219499 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Greta_Doci_WMDE, thiemowmde Cc: Lydia_Pintscher, alaa_wmde, Lea_Lacroix_WMDE, thiemowmde, Greta_Doci_WMDE, Tarrow, Addshore, Aklapper, joker88john, CucyNoiD, Nandana, NebulousIris, Gaboe420, Versusxo, Majesticalreaper22, Giuliamocci, Adrian1985, Cpaulf30, Lahi, Gq86, Baloch007, Darkminds3113, Bsandipan, Lordiis, GoranSMilovanovic, Adik2382, Th3d3v1ls, Ramalepe, Liugev6, QZanden, LawExplorer, Lewizho99, Maathavan, _jensen, rosalieper, Jonas, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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