ietf-nntp wildmat routines and text

[Andrew Gierth]

>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

 Russ> I've finished a new wildmat implementation for INN that adds
 Russ> support for comma and ! (and optionally @) as discussed in
 Russ> other messages here.  I've not checked it into INN yet because
 Russ> I want to also add UTF-8 support (which actually doesn't look
 Russ> to be that hard)

If you want to compare notes, I'll make available a copy of my UTF-8
wildmat code.

One additional comment on wildmat syntax: especially when handling
UTF-8, it would be useful to support numeric \-escapes (e.g. \040
or \x1234), even in []-sets.

-- 
Andrew.