What characters (other than [\w]) can I use in in type and field names without causing trouble? Lucene itself doesn't seem to have any restrictions (outside of the QueryParser), but elasticsearch appears to have special use for characters such as '.' and '#'.

Valid mapping type and field names?

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Valid mapping type and field names?