[IRCServices Coding] Fw: [Coders] RFCs and nicknames (Re: NS LINK and NS SET PRIVATE)

[Andrew Church]

>> >So the original ircd considered {}|[]\ to be "letters".
>> 
>>      *BZZZT* Nice try, thank you for playing.  To quote RFC1459:
>> 
>> <nick>    ::= <letter> { <letter> | <number> | <special> }
>> <letter>  ::= 'a' ... 'z' | 'A' ... 'Z'
>> <number>  ::= '0' ... '9'
>> <special> ::= '-' | '[' | ']' | '\' | '`' | '^' | '{' | '}'
>> 
>>      In other words, a "letter" is really a letter from A to Z, and not one
>> of []\{}|.  (It is true, however, that {}| and []\ were considered
>> case-insensitively equivalent.)
>> 
>
>But in the finland alphabet, ae, slash-o, and the other thing ARE between 
>A and Z :)

     I didn't notice that the RFC was written in Finnish...

  --Andrew Church
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