Talk:Underscore
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[edit] Underdot
"The underscore is used as a diacritic mark in some African and Native American languages. The underscore is sometimes used as an underdot (Unicode: COMBINING DOT BELOW) in romanized Arabic and Hebrew.."
What exactly is the parenthetical trying to indicate? Is it saying to see the approprate section on the page (if so, this isn't the way to do so)? It doesn't seem to make any sense to me, so it should be either clarified or removed. —Matthew0028 06:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Doesn't "underscore" have another meaning?
To my knowledge, an "underscore" can also be a musical piece used in cartoon films (for you Yanks: "movies"), e. g. those Hanna-Barbera ones. -andy 80.129.92.31 22:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
- I've heard of it as a "score", but never as an "underscore". Dictionary.com backs this up. And, fyi, "films" is a common enough term here in the U.S. (and interchangable with "movies"). --Matthew0028 00:05, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Instead of spaces
"It is also often used instead of a space in computer operating systems, filenames, e-mail addresses, and in World Wide Web URLs." Why is this? Nowadays most if not all OSs and file systems can cope with spaces in filenames, so far as I know.YourMessageHere 13:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Underscore Group
I clumsily added information about the Underscore Group based in Bristol, UK. It has been a highly influential group in the southwest and has helped turn this region into a thriving online community, people do ask what "underscore" is not thinking it's a character but thinking of the group that has been meeting on and off here for over ten years (officially it's ten years sometime later this year, but the ball was rolling earlier than that).
A number of fairly succesful projects have come via underscore and it would be a shame to lose the historical relevance of a small group of people just because it's a small group of people (less than a few thousand I think, hopefully someone can work out approximate numbers so far).
Underscore was named purposefully partly because of the problems with using underscores in web work, urls and so on that far too few people even those working in the media seem fully aware of.
Should it be on a disambiguation page, should it not be in wikipedia or should it be somewhere else? I don't know, but apologies for the clumsy addition and for writing this originally without signing it. --SteveRoome 03:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Can you use Underscores in the title of Wiki articles?
DragoonWraith 00:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC): At another Wiki I participate in, there is a need for articles that have underscores in them, but I cannot figure out anyway to prevent underscores from being switched to spaces... Any help would be appreciated.
