[Zope-dev] allowable object ids

[Florent Guillaume]

Dieter Maurer  <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:
>  > I'm
>  > currious, why aren't arbitrary characters allowed in object ids?
> I cannot tell you precisely.
> 
>   My guess:
> 
>     It was an initial simplification to avoid URL quoting at
>     many places. With the given restriction, you can use
>     ids directly in URLs -- no need to escape parts of them.
> 
>     I hope (and expect) that the restriction will be dropped
>     when Zope becomes unicode based.
>     Not because I miss characters like "+?/..." but because
>     international letters should be allowed in ids.

It will be the case in Zope 3 (only "/" will be forbidden in ids (=names)).
For Zope 2 I strongly doubt we'll have full unicode ids.

Florent
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