Sorry to follow up this late...
Is whitespace (in any form) allowed in the compatible value?
No. Only printable characters are allowed, that is, byte values 0x21..0x7e and 0xa1..0xfe; each text string is terminated by a 0x00; there can be several text strings concatenated in one "compatible" property.
Yes, whitespace is used at least in the toplevel compatible file, like 'Power Macintosh' in some Pismo models.
So those OF implementations violate the OF specification.
Oh well, it was wishful thinking anyway. ;)
I see two potential solutions: * Ideally, I'd like to find a character (pipe?) that isn't used in the Apple OF compatible property. I've been unable to find any documentation that specifies to this level of detail. (Well, without paying for the IEEE-1275 reference, and it may not even be there.)
See 2.3.75 and 3.2.2.1.2 in the OF spec.
Segher
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