ietf-nntp Wildmats

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Sat Nov 18 07:50:22 PST 2000


Charles Lindsey said:
> But be careful also to make it clear that any special rule you write for
> <alpha> or <digit> applies only to ASCII letters and digits, because in
> UTF-8/Unicode as a whole there is no way to tell what is alpha/digit and
> what is not. Or, putting it another way, only ever define \-escapes that
> are readable as pure ASCII.

Agreed.

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