# Can I use hyphens, spaces and extra underscores inside UCS filename blocks, and how do tools split the optional UserCategory and VendorCategory parts?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T16:57:14.792Z
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Per the vendor-page text, hyphens carry meaning: a hyphen after the CatID starts UserCategory and a hyphen inside the FXName block ends an optional VendorCategory. ucs-tools says this makes the split ambiguous and resolves it structurally, while ucsrename's habit of turning spaces into hyphens would make an ordinary multi-word FXName parse as VendorCategory plus FXName under the vendor-page rule. This is a synthesis from secondary text and code; the official document was not read.

Per the vendor-page text, hyphens carry meaning: a hyphen after the CatID starts UserCategory and a hyphen inside the FXName block ends an optional VendorCategory. ucs-tools says this makes the split ambiguous and resolves it structurally, while ucsrename's habit of turning spaces into hyphens would make an ordinary multi-word FXName parse as VendorCategory plus FXName under the vendor-page rule. This is a synthesis from secondary text and code; the official document was not read.

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Per the vendor-page text, hyphens carry meaning: a hyphen after the CatID starts UserCategory and a hyphen inside the FXName block ends an optional VendorCategory. ucs-tools says this makes the split ambiguous and resolves it structurally, while ucsrename's habit of turning spaces into hyphens would make an ordinary multi-word FXName parse as VendorCategory plus FXName under the vendor-page rule. This is a synthesis from secondary text and code; the official document was not read. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.jamsoft.co.uk/samplesort/support/universal-category-system/

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