Punctuation marks in title

[bluebedouin]

Just noticed one of my listings had a gap in the title.
A bit of experimenting found it was caused by commas,well any punctuation.I changed them from full stops to hyphens,still the same.
One was ok,two caused the gap.

[deanosaur1972]

Just noticed one of my listings had a gap in the title.
A bit of experimenting found it was caused by commas,well any punctuation.I changed them from full stops to hyphens,still the same.
One was ok,two caused the gap.

I believe there is a maximum number of 20 characters per single word or line of continuous characters without a space.

So Hyundai,Mitsubishi,R reaches is maximum number of characters (as there is no spacing it counts as one continual line of characters) and therefore forces the gap.

[crafters_corner_2]

I had no idea that was the case. So my attempts at squeezing key words in the title by using commas, is obviously counter-productive.

[bluebedouin]

I believe there is a maximum number of 20 characters per single word or line of continuous characters without a space.

So Hyundai,Mitsubishi,R reaches is maximum number of characters (as there is no spacing it counts as one continual line of characters) and therefore forces the gap.

Thanks deano' I didn't know that.
So basically,it's not a glitch but a fault in coding that could do with changing.

[deanosaur1972]

Thanks deano' I didn't know that.
So basically,it's not a glitch but a fault in coding that could do with changing.

Not even sure its a fault in coding really - I don't think its advisable to have comma's or stops in the titles, just leave them as spaces. Search engines have a history with not liking punctuation marks so far better to have spaces rather than comma's or stops.

The reason I know about the 20 character thing is having postcards from........

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch

Which (when listed) turns into:

llanfairpwllgwyngyll gogerychwyrndrobwlll lantysiliogogogoch

I actually left it like that as google seems to connect it back up again for searchers - so in effect it covers a keyword. Not that anyone would type all that into a search but with auto complete on google they may end up with it all.

[deanosaur1972]

And just looking at my post above the board has a character limit as well

50 character limit by the looks of it.........

[astral276]

So basically,it's not a glitch but a fault in coding that could do with changing.

More a design decision. Correct punctuation ( and, ideally, grammar ) should be used in titles - particularly if those items are to be accepted by Google for inclusion in Google Products. A comma should be followed by a space.

[damian_steele]

The automatic insertion of spaces was added a few years back to stop long, continuous titles from breaking the page layout.