Talk:Underscore

message: "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)
replies: text: It's the canonical name of the underdot in Unicode. -- Jordi·✆ 10:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Underdot

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Doesn't "underscore" have another meaning?

message: "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)
replies: text: On command lines / programs that interpret command lines, a space is used as a delimiter. This can be escaped or quoted, but it's generally more convenient to just avoid spaces in filenames. 68.82.171.129 (talk) 01:47, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Instead of spaces

message: 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)
thread_title: Underscore Group

message: DragoonWraith 00:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can you use Underscores in the title of Wiki articles? 

message: My apologies if this is a naive question, but why is there a diagram of one particular style of computer keyboard at the end of the article?  The article is about typography, with some computer-related content dealing primarily with COBOL, 1964 EBCDIC, and similar historical references to the origin of underscore in computing.  Why, then, is such a big block of space at the end of the article occupied by a large, not particularly well done, diagram of equipment that didn't even exist at that time?  I would suggest that either (1) it be deleted and replaced with one more appropriate to the topic, such as an IBM 029 or IBM 3270 keyboard; (2) all keyboards since the advent of COBOL be illustrated; or (3) to maintain a platform-neutral perspective, no particular keyboard be shown.  76.100.17.21 (talk) 01:25, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Keyboard diagram

message: Until now, we have two articles, Underscore and Underline, that are essentially the same because the words are synonyms. I have taken the advice at WP:MERGE, been bold, and just merged them. Underscore becomes the main article, underline a redirect to underscore, because of WP:Common name: Google's Ngram viewer has underscore the clear winner 
Of course wp:BRD applies but so does WP:IDONTLIKEIT. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:22, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The introduction contradicts itself: In the third sentence it says "Its use to add emphasis in modern documents is a deprecated practice". The introduction's last sentence says the opposite: "It is also used as markup to indicate underscore or italics, for instance _thus_ renders as thus or thus." MathiasHasselmann (talk) 08:44, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps it needs to be reworded. The first case describes finished documents, the second a kind of markup language akin to proofreader's marks (giving an instruction as to what needs to be done traditionally by the typesetter to 'set' the final form of the finished document). Can you suggest an improved wording? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:02, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

text: I forgot to say thank you for this feedback. For every person who bothers to report a problem, a thousand have gone away confused. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:13, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory introduction