On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:42:14AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > Curious if there is a reason that the alias node name char set is limited to [a-z][0-9] and ‘-‘. > > I’m guessing some historic reason, so curious as why that limited > set. [I really want an emoji in my alias name ;)] I'm pretty sure that limitation goes all the way back to IEEE1275, though I'm not sure of the rationale. Even if the set was widened you couldn't really have an emoji since an alias - like all node names - is a bag-o'-bytes, not a Unicode string. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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