Hi team, When using the SDK daml ledger allocate-parties ... command, what are the permitted characters? I know ^ is not, and gives me daml-helper: GRPCIOBadStatusCode StatusInternal (StatusDetails {unStatusDetails = "non expected character 0x5e in \"^\""}), what is the full list of allowed chars …

You can find this kind of information in the DAML-LF specification . For party names, the relevant part is PartyIdString ∈ [a-zA-Z0-9:-_ ]{1,255} So the length is between 1 and 255 and apart from digits, upper and lowercase ascii letters you can use :, -, _ and spaces.

What are the allowed characters and max length for DAML Party literals/names?

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WallaceKelly September 29, 2025, 10:01pm 3

At some point, parties were updated to consist of two parts – the name (aka the party hint) and the namespace. See Maximum length of the parts of a Daml Party Id?

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What are the allowed characters and max length for DAML Party literals/names?

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