Restrictions on resource names

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Dave Cridland <>
Date
2016-10-15T08:18:00+00:00
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Restrictions on resource names
On 14 Oct 2016 23:43, "John-Mark Gurney" < 
> wrote:  >
> Dave Cridland wrote this message on Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 13:42 +0100:  >
> And if you add in %-encoding, you can cover everyone's languages.  > > (Ignoring, for the moment, that we're talking about UTF-8 being percent  >
> encoded into Latin-1).  >
> We should be using IRI[1][2] for TAXII, which address non-ASCII characters is
> URLs.  >  > [1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier
> [2]  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987
>
Judging by the discussion about I18n on the call last week, I think this is the right path - it shows channel names to be IRI path segments, I think, for which we should be able to pass the buck to an existing definition.
>
> On 11 October 2016 at 13:40, Trey Darley < 
> wrote:  > >  > >
> On 11.10.2016 09:19:00, Jason Keirstead wrote:  > > >
> I think it would be overly limiting to not allow people to create  > > >
> collection names with non-latin1 characters. People will want to  > > >
> create collection names in their own language.  > > > >  > > >  > >
> I concur with Jason.  >  > --
> John-Mark