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  1. Bug #1782110
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1782110

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote : Re: [Bug 1782110] Re: unhelpful error message when snap is installed already

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 02:39:22PM -0000, John Lenton wrote:
> $ snap install ––help
> Your command included some characters that look like dashes but are not:
> "snap install \u2013\u2013help"

What happens if en or em dashes are used as part of a snap name? Are they
allowed characters or forbidden? Could there be commands that "look" safe
but in reality operate on pacakges with funny names?

Thanks