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  17     <B>Finny Merrill</B>
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  22     <I>Tue Jun 18 19:50:08 PDT 2002</I>
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  37 <PRE>On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
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  39 &gt;<i> &gt;On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
  40 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  41 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;      Yeah, I checked the other supported servers and noticed that they
  42 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; all support such nicks too... and to be honest I'm in full agreement with
  43 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; Stskeeps that that part of the RFC (among others) is out of date; I just
  44 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; wish there was something more up to date that everyone could agree on.
  45 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; (Is this where someone jumps in and says &quot;if you want to get something
  46 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; done, do it yourself&quot;?)
  47 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;
  48 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;   --Andrew Church
  49 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">achurch at achurch.org</A>
  50 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt;     <A HREF="http://achurch.org/">http://achurch.org/</A>
  51 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  52 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;Well, if you read the RFC
  53 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  54 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  55 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;Because of IRC's scandanavian origin, the characters {}| are considered to
  56 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;be the lower case equivalents of the characters []\, respectively. This is
  57 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;a critical issue when determining the equivalence of two nicknames.
  58 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  59 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;
  60 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;So the original ircd considered {}|[]\ to be &quot;letters&quot;.
  61 </I>&gt;<i>
  62 </I>&gt;<i>      *BZZZT* Nice try, thank you for playing.  To quote RFC1459:
  63 </I>&gt;<i>
  64 </I>&gt;<i> &lt;nick&gt;    ::= &lt;letter&gt; { &lt;letter&gt; | &lt;number&gt; | &lt;special&gt; }
  65 </I>&gt;<i> &lt;letter&gt;  ::= 'a' ... 'z' | 'A' ... 'Z'
  66 </I>&gt;<i> &lt;number&gt;  ::= '0' ... '9'
  67 </I>&gt;<i> &lt;special&gt; ::= '-' | '[' | ']' | '\' | '`' | '^' | '{' | '}'
  68 </I>&gt;<i>
  69 </I>&gt;<i>      In other words, a &quot;letter&quot; is really a letter from A to Z, and not one
  70 </I>&gt;<i> of []\{}|.  (It is true, however, that {}| and []\ were considered
  71 </I>&gt;<i> case-insensitively equivalent.)
  72 </I>&gt;<i>
  73 </I>
  74 But in the finland alphabet, ae, slash-o, and the other thing ARE between
  75 A and Z :)
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