How do I put a 'not equals' symbol into a program name?

[Jessica_Ruffalo]

How do I put a 'not equals' symbol into a program name?

[Darshil_Shah1]

Need more details here:

Do you mean adding the symbol in the program name or using a program name not equal to operator in a filter? Also, what exactly is the symbol you’re referring to? Is it != or ≠?

[Jessica_Ruffalo]

≠   In a program name.  I realized I can copy and paste it in there, but wonder if there is a shortcut.  Thank you.

[Darshil_Shah1 · Accepted solution]

Yeah, you’d need to either copy paste it or insert it using the character map as it's not included in the standard keyboard setup.

[areilly10]

Not sure if this would impact it, but just a heads up to that symbols used in your program names could mess with API pulls or integrations. I've had to rename fields for using symbols that integrations didn't like even though the fields weren't even used in the integration, so I try to reduce punctuation and symbols where I can.

[Darshil_Shah1]

I usually limit myself to using "-" or "_" apart from the usual alpha-numeric chars while naming the assets. 🙂

[SanfordWhiteman]

Eh, this seems bit silly to me. I’m working in instances using CJK characters all the time. If an integration doesn’t support i18n in 2023 they need to hire people who get it.

The only characters I might avoid are those that aren’t filesystem and/or OS compatible, which is a subset of ASCII characters

/ \ | < > : * ?

But even, so a correctly written app will not have trouble with these. There’s little reason to be writing asset names to the filesystem, period, and no reason you can’t encode them as necessary. An app that’s trying to copy Program names to Windows/Mac files or folders verbatim is probably broken in a million other ways — it’s a code smell!

[Amanda_Reilly3]

Mostly just was a concern based on an issue I had recently with On24 where it wouldn't integrate if any field had a quotation in it and future proofing. Some integrations just act oddly and if you plan to use tools that may struggle with the characters or if parsing data becomes difficult because of it, just calling it out.