On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > The main restriction is G_legal_filename(), in lib/gis/legal_name.c. > This prohibits all characters >=127 and <=32 as well as the specific > characters:
G_legal_filename is used in lib/init/set_data.c to check MAPSET and LOCATION_NAME. Does it mean that there are no restrictions for GISBASE? > As you know, vector map names are further restricted to valid SQL > identifiers. Personally, I'd like to see that restriction removed. > There's no fundamental reason why a map's attribute table must have > *exactly* the same name as the map; an approximation (e.g. with > invalid characters replaced by underscores) would suffice, IMHO. Just simple replacement results in duplicate names, does not? Radim _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
