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

[Andrew Church]

>>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).
>>  
>>
>
>yeap, but I cannot actually see an ircd treating [nick] as if it was 
>{nick}, so services shouldn't treat this way too

     The RFC actually does require [nick] and {nick} to be treated the
same, and IIRC irc2.8.21 and relatives actually did this.  Modern ircds
don't, and Services handles them correctly as well.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/