Use of Special Characters in Project Name

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Ran to an issues with uStn not creating PDF's because of a comma "," in the project name. Can someone refresh my memory about the special characters not recognized by Microstation?? 
 In the good old days (Unix, NT, XP) only underscore, dash with letters & numbers were allowed. 
 
 Steven W. 
 Win 10 64bit 
 SS4 08.11.09.829 
 V8 08.05.02.70

Marc Thomas · Accepted Answer

I'm not sure what the exact position is here, I can't find a relevant note in help or communities. I think characters allowed by Windows are allowed by MicroStation. 
 However I recommend sticking to the old rules of underscore and dash separators with only letters & numbers avoiding any potentially ambiguous characters, definitely no spaces!

Steven W · Answer

Found the following info during my research. Supporting article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx Digest of the article: File names or Path(directory) You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a file or path name: Tilde (~) Number sign (#) Percent (%) Ampersand (&) Asterisk (*) Braces ({ }) Backslash (\) Colon (:) Angle brackets (< >) Less Than (<) Greater Than (>) Question mark (?) Forward slash (/) Plus sign (+) Vertical bar or Pipe (|) Quotation mark (" ') Comma (,) Semi-Colon (;) You cannot use the "Space" character at the beginning of a file name or path, NULLS are striped out. You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a file name (..) You cannot use the period character at the end of a file name (abcde.) You cannot start a file name by using the period character (.abcde) If you use an underscore character (_abcde) at the beginning of a file name, the file will be a hidden file.

Use of Special Characters in Project Name

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