Re: Character set usage in structural elements

[Stuart Booth]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:18:01 +0100, "Kevin Hawkins"
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wrote:

>"This keyword uses alpha-numeric printable characters a..z (a
through z)
>0-9 (zero through nine), _ (underscore), - (minus) and, additionally,
>embedded _ (space)."
>
> Was it implicit that his should apply to the structural elements too
>
> Eg the source address ??

I must admit I'd have thought so. Perhaps the same rules as apply to
email addresses could be applied here? I don't know what those rules
and restrictions are, but sticking to a small subset alpha-numeric
characters appeals to me.

I am however unsure of how foreign translations/localisation issues
would impact here.

> I would like to restrict the character set as above in these
>elements - does anyone have any thoughts - or did they already believe
it
>was ?

If you'd asked me without any chance to check, I'd have expected that
to be the case.

> One issue I see this might effect is the indexing of body names
>using [1] [2] or (1) (2) etc - maybe the brackets should be allowed and
>could be transposed into an allowable character elsewhere as special
cases -
>as the whitespace character might have to be. Note that I think they
are not
>currently permitted in the names either light(1)=OFF is not legal :-(

I thought the block indexing was Block.Name.1 and Block.Name.2

Inside blocks I anticipated it to be Light1=Off Light2=On.

S
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