ietf-nntp Case sensitivity in xpat

[Chris Newman]

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Nat Ballou wrote:

> Others have pointed out to me that existing drafts
> (including my search draft) are ambigous on case
> sensitivity of the search pattern in the xpat 
> command.  
> 
> I would prefer to make this search case-insensitive.
> 
> Comments?

What is case-insensitive?  How is this effected by the use of non-ASCII
charsets in the body or by MIME header encoding in different languages?

I'd say that you either want an octet-based comparision that's case
sensitive, or you want to use the idea of a named "comparator" function
that's being developed in the ACAP working group.

I suppose you could just define it as English/US-ASCII-case-insensitive,
but that might make some people unhappy...