<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hello,   You are right. The signals in my application are named with "-" and "_" in the same string. I thought underscores and dash were both rejected by Dbus check. Indeed, only dash character is rejected while underscore character works.   Neverthless, I do not know why dash character is rejected by Dbus check in member name. Thank you and best regards VyDaMan > From: thiago@kde.org > To: ernaveenverma@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Restriction in naming a signal > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:25:01 +0200 > CC: dbus@lists.freedesktop.org > > Naveen Verma wrote: > >Thant strange, I was checking with dbus specification at: > >http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol > >-messages > > > >and there it seems at least underscore can be used in member name. Is > > the spec need to be updated? > > Hmm... you're quite right. The underscore is permitted. > > I misread my own code: it checks that each character in the member name > passes the test IsValidCharacterNoDash. It didn't occur to me to check if > the function checked underscores too (it does). > > -- >   Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org >     PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: >     E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 <hr />Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! <a href='http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us' target='_new'>Try it!</a></body> </html>