What characters are not allowed in Reuters symbol names

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Question by andy.sciascia · Aug 16, 2017 at 06:25 AM · symbol names

What characters are not allowed in Reuters symbol names

We need to know what characters are invalid for Reuters symbol names so we can use one of them to map '/' which we use as a separator but can be a valid character in Reuters symbol names. From the rather old User Guide I have here it looks like ' ' is a candidate but I'd like to get the official line on this.

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-16T08:22:24Z

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Answer by Umer Nalla · Aug 16, 2017 at 08:22 AM

Hi @andy.sciascia

You can find further details on RIC code components in the Elektron Edge Programmers Guide

This states that 'there can be no imbedded spaces within a RIC'

I also found another (internal) doc which states:

Illegal Characters

The following are not considered legitimate characters anywhere within RICs.

‘(‘, ‘)’, ‘;’, ‘@’, ‘~’, ‘&’
Underscore, Space, Single & double quotes
Any non-printing characters (excepting brokerage characters).
Characters above 7F

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Answer 2 · 2017-08-16T06:43:20Z

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Answer by Zhenya Kovalyov · Aug 16, 2017 at 06:43 AM

What about @?

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Answer 3 · 2017-08-16T07:14:38Z

Answer by andy.sciascia · Aug 16, 2017 at 07:14 AM

Thanks but what I really need is an official list of the allowed characters so we can pick one of the un-allowed ones. We did this a few years ago and settled on ' ' but I'd like to check that we're still ok using that.

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Answer by andy.sciascia · Aug 16, 2017 at 08:32 AM

Perfect. Thanks very much.

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