Some compositing applications do not support spaces and dots in layer names, and change these to other symbols on import. This causes various compatibility issues, including with Cryptomatte metadata. While technically those could be considered bugs in the Cryptomatte implementation of other software, where they are not properly accounting for that layer renaming, it's not ideal. The OpenEXR channel naming convention is "layer.pass.channel". We get away with dots in the layer name since we parse this from right to left, but it's a weak assumption. Now we don't forbid using spaces or dots, and existing files are unchanged. But at least by default names will be compatible, and hopefully other software catches up in time to support more flexible layer names. Ref T68924
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