Application names starting with digits

[Nate Finch]

One thing we *could* do to support non-english names that would not
entirely open the door to emoji etc is to simply constrain the names to
unicode letters and numbers.  Thus you could name something 數據庫 but
not 💩💩💩💩.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:29 AM Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 02/12/16 09:23, Adam Collard wrote:
>
> True, but we could do normalisation in the charm store to prevent
> malicious names. I think it's an important aspect of software in the modern
> world that it can support the wide array of languages that we humans use.
>
>
> This just transfers the definition of 'OK' to a different codebase.
>
> It's much better to have a simple rule that can be well documented,
> enforced the same way in store and client and snapd, and typed on any
> laptop without having to refer to the internet for assistance.
>
>
> Mark
>
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