# Org-mode tags with special characters

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-mode-tags-with-special-characters/3712>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [December 26, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-mode-tags-with-special-characters/3712 "2024-12-26T00:03:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![orgroamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@orgroamer](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/orgroamer)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-mode-tags-with-special-characters/3712/1 "2024-12-26T00:03:22Z")

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[According to the Org-mode documentation](https://orgmode.org/manual/Tags.html), ‘Tags are normal words containing letters, numbers, ‘\_’, and ‘@’.’

Is it possible to use other special characters, in addition to ‘\_’ and ‘@’? For example, apostrophes (‘'’) or hyphens (‘-’). Emacs Lisp tends to use hyphens as a delimiter, so it seems elegant to continue using them in Org-mode.

I found [this post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15511892/any-way-to-extend-org-mode-tags-to-include-characters-like), but it is from a while ago.

Not a big deal, I can just use underscores otherwise, but would be nice to have.