[OSM-dev] Valid characters for display name

[Tom Hughes]

On 05/05/12 18:38, Andreas Labres wrote:

> Is there a list of valid characters available? (or a list of "forbidden" ones?)

Yeah, in the source code ;-)

> I got a report "ungültiger Anzeigename" (probably "invalid display name") from a
> user.
>
> The probably most famous "invalid" character is ".", isn't ist?

It's basically anything that has special meaning in a URL, and "." 
because it confuses the automatic format detection in rails.

Tom

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