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

[Finny Merrill]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Church wrote:

>      Yeah, I checked the other supported servers and noticed that they
> all support such nicks too... and to be honest I'm in full agreement with
> Stskeeps that that part of the RFC (among others) is out of date; I just
> wish there was something more up to date that everyone could agree on.
> (Is this where someone jumps in and says "if you want to get something
> done, do it yourself"?)
> 
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/

Well, if you read the RFC


Because of IRC's scandanavian origin, the characters {}| are considered to 
be the lower case equivalents of the characters []\, respectively. This is 
a critical issue when determining the equivalence of two nicknames.


So the original ircd considered {}|[]\ to be "letters". I believe they're
slash-o, ae, and something else (sts would know).