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

[fabulous]

Finny Merrill wrote:

>Well, if you read the RFC
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>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.
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>So the original ircd considered {}|[]\ to be "letters". I believe they're
>slash-o, ae, and something else (sts would know).
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yeap, but I cannot actually see an ircd treating [nick] as if it was 
{nick}, so services shouldn't treat this way too

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