No non-alphanumeric characters allowed in test identifier strings (`_bTestResults`)

The HOWTO <http://www.browserscope.org/user/tests/howto> states that `=` or `,` 
are not allowed in test identifier strings (for use in `_bTestResults`). 
However, I found that most characters outside the [A-Za-z0-9-] range aren’t 
allowed either. When you try to use curly quotes or other non-alphanumeric 
Unicode characters like ™ © — –, Browserscope returns a 500 Internal 
Server Error (when posting the results).

Anyway, if this is intentional behavior, it might be useful to amend the HOWTO.

If not, I hope it gets fixed at some point :) It would be great if a more 
liberal set of characters could be supported, especially for sites like jsPerf, 
where test titles generally have quotes, brackets and other fancy programming 
stuff in them.

P.S. The HOWTO also states “The syntax is 'test_key': 'value' […] and value 
is a numeric value from 0 through 10000”, but it seems higher values are 
possible as well. Is there really an enforced limit or not?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mathias%...@gtempaccount.com on 21 Oct 2010 at 3:07

shivanikhosa / browserscope

No non-alphanumeric characters allowed in test identifier strings (`_bTestResults`) #271