What characters should be legal in Thrift constants (defined in IDL files)?

\ ' "

Yes

dreiss

Dave Engberg

mcslee

Esteve Fernandez

Greg Stein

No

\n \r

Yes

mcslee

Esteve Fernandez

Greg Stein

No

dreiss

Dave Engberg

\t

Yes

Greg Stein

mcslee

No

\a \b \v \f

Yes

No

dreiss

Dave Engberg

mcslee Esteve Fernandez – unsure about \t

\0

Yes

No

dreiss

Dave Engberg

mcslee

Esteve Fernandez

Greg Stein

non-ascii

Yes

Dave Engberg (+ general movement from ascii to Unicode for string type)

mcslee – yeah UTF-8 seems fine to me

Esteve Fernandez – UTF-8

Greg Stein – UTF-8, Baby!!

No

dreiss