[NNTP] Internationalisation, attempt 2

Kai Henningsen kaih at khms.westfalen.de
Fri May 6 01:09:00 PDT 2005


clive at demon.net (Clive D.W. Feather)  wrote on 04.05.05 in <20050504135652.GP39603 at finch-staff-1.thus.net>:

> Charles Lindsey said:
> >>> BTW, if the draft still includes those examples on non-equivalent
> >>> message-ids, the latest version of them (following discovery of yet
> >>> another case needing to be covered) is:
> >>>
> >>> |  <ab.cd at example.com>
> >>> |  <"ab.cd"@example.com>
> >>> |  <"ab.\cd"@example.com>
>
> > The latest was when it was pointed out that an otherwise unexceptionable
> > dot-atom-text should never be placed inside a quoted-string, and after the
> > syntax had been fixed for that, the standard example was changed to
> > illustrate the point (well, it hasn't made it into the latest draft yet,
> > but that is what was suggested recently). I was just suggesting that the
> > NNTP draft might wish to make the same change.
>
> I'm not sure what was wrong with the existing example, but I've made the
> change anyway.

Is there something about <ab.cd at ExAmPlE.CoM>? If not, there should  
probably be. (That is, while domain names are case insensitive, message  
ids are compared bytewise.)

MfG Kai



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