---
title: nameContainsProhibitedCharacters
framework: homekit
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: homekit/hmerror/namecontainsprohibitedcharacters
---

# nameContainsProhibitedCharacters

An attempt to name an object with prohibited characters.

## Declaration

```swift
static var nameContainsProhibitedCharacters: HMError.Code { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Only letters, symbols, numbers, spaces, and apostrophes are permitted in names.

## See Also

### Detecting value errors

- [invalidDataFormatSpecified](homekit/hmerror/invaliddataformatspecified.md)
- [invalidValueType](homekit/hmerror/invalidvaluetype.md)
- [nameDoesNotEndWithValidCharacters](homekit/hmerror/namedoesnotendwithvalidcharacters.md)
- [nameDoesNotStartWithValidCharacters](homekit/hmerror/namedoesnotstartwithvalidcharacters.md)
- [stringLongerThanMaximum](homekit/hmerror/stringlongerthanmaximum.md)
- [stringShorterThanMinimum](homekit/hmerror/stringshorterthanminimum.md)
- [valueHigherThanMaximum](homekit/hmerror/valuehigherthanmaximum.md)
- [valueLowerThanMinimum](homekit/hmerror/valuelowerthanminimum.md)