[NUT-devel] Names in Nut Packets

[Oded Shimon]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:47:03AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> currently Names are UTF-8, IMHO we should limit them to [a-zA-Z0-9] at least
> or maybe just [a-z]
> furthermore its a little tempting to either use the unused bytes for common
> syllables or store things in 5-6bit per char
> or does that syllable table need to be extendible but not storeable too? in
> which case iam obviously not agreeing

You mean, names of fields in info packets?..
i think not limit them, allow the user to have whatever extra weird fields 
he wants, there's no big disadvantage in allowing full utf-8...

_maybe_ limiting types of fields, but i'm not sure that's a good idea 
either.

- ods15