Special Character Conversions

Special characters are converted to ASCII Hex values corresponding to the special character, for example if the point or parent folder have & in the name this will translate to _26_ in the data stream name. A parent folder B127Mech125&126&127 will translate to B127Mech125_26_126_26_127. Similar substitutions will occur for:

space ! “ # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / _ ` ^ ~ { } | \

This is so that the identifier can be used in URLs safely without percent encoding.

The user can decode our changes using a by hand or automatic process to find the name of the point or subtopic that they sent in the first place.