[NNTP] Internationalisation, attempt 2

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Mon May 9 11:48:22 PDT 2005


In <9WMi892Xw-B at khms.westfalen.de> kaih at khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:

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

>> 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.)

My reading of RFC 2822 is that an <id-right> (which might well look like a
<domain>, but actually is just the sequences of characters you can get by
expanding dot-atom-text or no-fold-literal) is not case-insensitive.

Bruce Lilly disagrees, and I have had endless arguments with him about
this (I am right, of course :-) ). Note that in RFC 822 the RHS of a
Message-ID was indeed case-insensitive, and my claim was that RFC 2822 had
fixed that unfortunate state of affairs.

Sadly, it had not fixed the problems with quoted-strings and quoted-pairs.

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