is there a way to write Firsestore security rules for non-ASCII collection names?

Question

Many of my Firestore documents and collections are named in Arabic, but when I want to write security rules I noticed Arabic text is not accepted? I need help on how to fix that?

I tried many types to write the Arabic collection names in the Security rules, but not accepted by Firebase and I couldn't any useful solution on the Internet for this case.

Answer 1

firebaser here: I thought we'd covered this before, but can't find it - so I checked with the engineering team.

The path segment in your rules definition may only contain [A-Za-z0-9] plus some special characters like * and %. For other characters, you can should use hex/URL escaping (using %).

So if I have a collection named één, I'd have a rule matching it as:

match /%C3%A9%C3%A9n/{docid} {
  allow read;
}

The %C3%A9%C3%A9n in there is the URL encoding of the collection name één, in this case gotten by doing encodeURI('één').