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Workaround for special characters
Markus Järvenpää raised the issue that Finnish classes, properties and property sets often need 'Äą'. In bSDD we allow 'Äą' in names but not in codes.
Problem 1: The property set doesn't have a name in bSDD, only code. A potential workaround could be to define the set as GroupOfProperties and give it a human-friendly name with 'Äą'. But it's not supported by software implementations and also leads to problem 2.
Problem 2: Common BIM software allows users to put property names with 'Äą', and when exporting to IFC, those characters get encoded to hexadecimal code (https://technical.buildingsmart.org/resources/ifcimplementationguidance/string-encoding/). bSDD doesn't allow '' in codes, so not possible to define even the encoded names.