Set code naming standard

[Dillonzer]

Regarding the Set Code (SWSH4, TK10A, etc) are there any limitations we should be thinking of when trying to figure out what to name the missing ones?

• Should we allow only alphanumeric?
• Should we also allow special characters?
• Should there be a length limit?
• Is there some regex it should be passing to be a valid set code?

To make sure we have a standard we should make sure we have a standard convention for naming them as well.

[immewnity]

For what it's worth, TCGO uses underscores in their "codes" (e.g. Promo_XY) and hyphens in their "abbreviations" (e.g. PR-XY). Of course, most places seem to use XYP as the code in this case... I think we might be able to fully avoid anything non-alphanumeric.

For lengths, I'm not sure any strict limit would need to be set. What would you see as the primary benefit of setting a limit? Field sizes?

[Dillonzer]

I can't think of a useful reason for a limit other than specialty sets getting out of control. (ie #1 #7 ).

[egonolieux]

Are we planning to extend the scope to the Japanese TCG as well in the future? Or are we primarily concerned about PTCGi?

[immewnity]

PSC 001 is currently scoped to:

TCG releases by Wizards of the Coast, Nintendo, Pokémon USA, and/or The Pokémon Company International

Due to how different Japanese releases are structured, maybe a separate document should be made for it? Or we could put it in a subsection of PSC 001, something like "PSC 001-J"?

On a related note, I'm not entirely sure how the other TPC regions would play in (Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.)...

[egonolieux]

I don't think we should write a standard for all regions right away, but deciding on a document structure/standard name that supports different regions might be a good thing to decide on from the beginning.

I think suffixing the region like PSC 001-J (or PSC 001-JP) is a good idea. Maybe for consistency we should also use the -INTL or -PTCGI suffix? For standards where region does not apply, it should be left out of course.

[immewnity]

I don't think we should write a standard for all regions right away, but deciding on a document structure/standard name that supports different regions might be a good thing to decide on from the beginning.

I think suffixing the region like PSC 001-J (or PSC 001-JP) is a good idea. Maybe for consistency we should also use the -INTL or -PTCGI suffix? For standards where region does not apply, it should be left out of course.

That could work - using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes for the countries, maybe? And then yeah, -INTL or similar for the rest.