Hello Jonathan, That sounds fine to me.
Concerning non-ascii -- you may be right. Cheers, Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Gregory [mailto:jonat...@met.reading.ac.uk] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Gregory > Sent: 28 October 2009 15:14 > To: Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,SSTD) > Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; r.s.hatc...@reading.ac.uk > Subject: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values in > netcdf cf -- what are "words" > > Dear Martin > > It would be more restrictive than your list, but it would be > consistent, I > suppose, to use the same list permitted for netCDF variable/dim/attr > names viz > > alphanumeric characters, underscore '_', period '.', plus '+', hyphen > '-', or > at sign '@' > > Since these are ASCII char arrays, accented etc chars should be > excluded > anyway by that, shouldn't they? > > Best wishes > > Jonathan -- Scanned by iCritical. _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata