only characters supported are A-Z, a-z and 0-9. This is way too restrictive to my taste and I never got a valid explanation for it. Please allow support for:
jbante I updated the idea description. I actually made your suggestion #1 and suggested FMI falls back on the other item (hoping they would explain why they cannot use the complete set of unicode characters)
FMI comes from USA and want things to be as clean as possible to avoid problems with Characters. I always try to have my solution written in English to avoid problem if I start using CWP
IMHO, "USA" has nothing to do with it. Remember that there can be character set differences in Platforms (although most of those are no longer an issue) and differences in keyboards. The limited set may have to do with the ways FM is used (externally, for example) and how it must be authenticated. Perhaps lowest-common-denominator?
Beverly
FileMaker also run on planet earth in 2017. I use irony not towards you Johan, but to remind all of us of context, I'm sure there was a reason for this to be in the first place, just like there was a reason for the 8.3 filename convention back in those days. But today, if I can create a field, a custom function, a script and pretty much anything I can think of with a name that goes like "te st._|é" (without the quotes obviously), if it is ok for all those other objects, why is it not good for extended privileges?
"as clean as possible" can mean different things to different people. To some, clean means "readable" or "meaningful" and I would argue the current limitations go against those.
Space, period, underscore and pipe are not based on language.
This is not about how date format is handled and other regional considerations.
if FileMaker wants to stick to that for the extended privileges they create, that's up to them. Why do they force it down on me?
I no longer name my files accordingly to the 8.3 format by the way.
Also, as a side note, to keep things "clean" the question mark should be prohibited to use in a password (something still not fixed in FM16): Opening shared databases remotely using a URL: password Issue
Maybe I'll post a new product idea suggesting passwords allowing only the characters allowed by the extended privileges. Sorry for my rant, those things make me want to throw my keyboard by the window.
5. All of Unicode