Re: [libvirt] Valid characters in domain names?
On 10/04/2010 05:38 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
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Actually I think that for ESX since all exchanges with the
hypervisor
are XML based there isn't that ambiguity about encoding at least.
Yeah. vSphere has a fairly international market, so expecting they'd
have a way of doing things by now to make sure this isn't a problem.
goes beyond that, someone using any non-ascii name will hit
hypervisor
specific behaviour, ISO-Latin, asian language ... and we habe no control
over this except for some checking and the possibility of a warning.
Wonder what the best approach will be. Maybe a whitelist on "known
good" characters, and a conversion table for situations where we need
to proceed anyway? (if that happens)