From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 09:15:31 CDT
In <7PYT53Zmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) wrote on 12.08.99 in <199908121806.TAA08287@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>:
>> component-start = Un-lowercase / Un-digit
>> Un-lowercase = <Unicode Letter, Lowercase> /
>> <Unicode Letter, Other>
>> Un-digit = <Unicode Number, Decimal Digit> /
>> <Unicode Number, Other>
>> component-other = "+" / "-" / "_"
>I still object to this. There is no good reason for this standard to
>restrict newsgroup names this way.
It seems to reflect current practice, which is designed to prevent
confusion of the users by having newsgroup names differing only in case.
We would have made the names case-insentitive if only there had been a
readily available algorithm to implement that in Unicode.
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