Loosen constraints on what constitutes valid characters in an environment variable name

[ae6rt]

The IEEE spec says characters comprising an environment variable must consist of letters, digits, and the underscore: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/.

rkt/rkt#3532 and appc/docker2aci#244 suggests this be loosened.

[thockin]

POSIX seems to not disallow chars like '=', which is mind boggling, but apparently some people do (bug report against kubernetes).

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