From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 13:13:00 CDT
davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) wrote on 04.10.99 in <199910041522.LAA29559@darkstar.prodigy.com>:
> Is there really a need for non-ASCII in the newsgroup names? This is not
> an English centric question,
It is.
How'd you react to a rule that said "no 'd' in newsgroup names"?
It's the same type of rule.
> Given that case is
> *not* significant in many places, I wonder how much software does that
> with group names.
I have no problem with a rule saying names shouldn't just differ in case.
> I admit to being a minimalist on standards, I don't like changes unless
> they solve actual problems,
These do.
>and I don't see us being out of group
> namespace and needing uppercase or extended character sets.
It's not an "out of group namespace" problem.
>So any
> extension in this area is for political correctness, perhaps.
Nope. It's for orthographic correctness.
A short look into my active file shows quite a number of candidates (I'm
not sure in every case, of course; names are sometimes weird (the fan
groups)):
de.alt.fan.bluemchen
Blümchen
de.alt.fan.die-aerzte
Die-Ärzte
de.alt.fan.dudenhoeffer
Dudenhöffer
de.alt.fan.fruehstyxradio
Frühstyxradio
de.alt.fan.pluesch
Plüsch
de.alt.hoerfunk
Hörfunk
de.etc.beruf.selbstaendig
selbständig
de.etc.finanz.boerse
Börse
de.etc.selbsthilfe.gehoer
Gehör
de.etc.selbsthilfe.missbrauch
Mißbrauch
de.rec.buecher
Bücher
de.rec.hoerspiel
Hörspiel
de.rec.sport.fussball
Fußball
de.rec.tiere.voegel
Vögel
de.rec.tv.lindenstrasse
Lindenstraße
de.sci.oekonomie
Ökonomie
de.sci.paedagogik
Pädagogik
de.soc.familie.vaeter
Väter
de.soc.kontakte.freizuegig
Freizügig
I don't even want to know abaut Japanese hierarchies.
MfG Kai