hyphen in object name changed to underscore.

[keithsloan52]

I have an FreeCAD python feature that adds a property with

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obj.addProperty("App::PropertyString","name",'GDMLmaterial','name').name = name

The name is being read from an external file and has a hyphen in it. FreeCAD is converting the hyphen to an underscore,
is there anything about this? i.e. something like an escape character?

[openBrain]

Name in FreeCAD can be only alphanumerical characters + underscore. No other character is supported. First character can't be a digit.

[onekk]

Also spaces are converted to underscore in names, so:

"this-name"

"this name"

"this_name"

Are perfect equivalent after this "translation", it is simply a matter to put this in "evidence somewhere", not a big issue.

It as many other thing in FreeCAD "perfecly hidden in great evidence", it only lacks of a little arrow pointing at his behaviour.

Regards

Carlo D.