From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Nov 02 1997 - 11:38:52 CST
Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de) writes:
>I'd add a recommendation for reading agents to use the full comparision
>rules for newsgroup names entered by the user, and converting any
>representation to that in the group list, if it's equivalent according to
>these rules, except that this might give problems when someone manages to
>actually create two "equivalet, but spelled differently" newsgroup names -
>reading agents might select the "wrong" one. Hmm ...
The problem with different representations of the same name is
not constrained to the reading agents. Also relayers must be
aware of it. If there already is a se.test.räksmörgås with pre-
composed letters, and a newgroup message comes with the name
being "spelt" with non-spacing accents, the relayer must not
create a new group.
Note that this is not a theoretic problem, but exists already
today. Of course not with non-spacing accents, but it's easy
to find pair of groups that obviously are the same, but which
differs in spelling because someone messed up.
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se