ietf-nntp [a-z] in Wildmats
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Thu Jun 21 04:50:12 PDT 2001
Charles Lindsey said:
> There is an issue which arises which we have not considered before, but
> which has been the subject of debate in the USEFOR list. Some characters
> are composite.
[...]
> So I think it would be better to leave the feature out.
I agree. We're heading rapidly into unknown territory, so it's best to play
safe and leave [ as undefined behaviour.
Um, ? does have the same issue, though on a lesser scale. Nevertheless I
think we're best leaving it exactly as is for now. If I have time I'll do
some more reading of the Unicode standard.
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