Re: DRAFT v0.1: Newsgroups (UTF-8 in names?)

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From: Martin J. Dürst (mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch)
Date: Mon Nov 03 1997 - 05:50:38 CST


On 2 Nov 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> 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 ...

I agree that it's a good idea to indicated to implementors where
full comparison or normalization has to be done.

Regards, Martin.


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