Re: IPv6 address/port format (summary of valid chars)

[Ian McKellar <yakk-debian-ipv6@yakk.net.au>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:44:14PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
> 
> Quick summary. We need a non alphanumeric symbol found on a standard
> US Qwerty keyboard, and hopefully found on most keyboards worldwide.
> Most cases are excluded due to overloading from unix(tm) like shells:
> 	:	it is in the IPv6 address, unless we use ::
> 	;	it separates unix(tm) commands in most shells
> 	#	it is a script comment in most shells
> 	|	it is a unix(tm) pipe in most shells
> 	~	it expands to user directoy in most shells
> 	&	it backgrounds unix(tm) processes in most shells
> 	<, >	it redirect in most unix(tm) shells
> 	$	it expands to a shell variable in several shells
> 	`	it is a subshell start token in most unix(tm) shells
> 	\	will cause escaping nightmares in most unix(tm) shells
> 
> 
> This leaves us with:
> 	!	@	%	^
> 	*	=	+

Of course !, % and * (And sometimes ^) have special shell meanings too.

Ian

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