I would think other symbols should be avoided like commas, single/double quotes, and apostrophe come to mind; plus non-viewable characters like tabs & device codes.

Then there is the question of unicode characters, which ones in, which ones out.  Ligatures could be messy


Filesystems, domain servers and HDF have similar restrictions & condundrums. 


In terms of a generic sw development project, probably best to have an api that tests or corrects for acceptable text strings within the program. 


Matthew Dougherty
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine 
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From: Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 2:46 PM
To: Dougherty, Matthew T
Cc: chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu
Subject: Re: [Chimera-users] savepos
 
I think you need to avoid whitespace and semi-colon, which will screw up the parser.  Anything else should be okay I think.

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen
                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                        http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Jun 23, 2015, at 1:53 PM, "Dougherty, Matthew T" <matthewd@bcm.edu> wrote:

in defining the text string view_name, spaces are disallowed, eg "rotate 30".
Although the position will be created, the reset command will not properly access the position key.

What are the allowable characters?

Matthew Dougherty
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine
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