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Re: completing-read case problem
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: completing-read case problem |
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Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:19:34 +0100 |
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Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Case insensitive please! (I am using ms windows so I am biased by my
>> habits in this case, but I would believe that a lot of users like case
>> insensitive handling. Compare with mail-addresses for example, they
>> are since long not case sensitive.)
>
> Internet mail addresses are defined by IETC RFCs, and have always been
> case insensitive. They have as much to do with the matter at hand as
> whether or not file names in different file systems are case sensitive:
> nothing.
If I recall the RFCs correctly, the right hand side of e-mail
addresses are indeed case insensitive, but whether the left hand side
of e-mail addresses are case sensitive or not, is up to each domain.
For example, address@hidden does not necessarily equal address@hidden This
means that, in general, case must be preserved.
What is relevant to this discussion is, I guess, that deciding between
case sensitive and case insensitive is a trade-off, and there is no
clear answer.
- Re: completing-read case problem, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/15
- Re: completing-read case problem, Markus Rost, 2004/11/15
- Re: completing-read case problem, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/11/15
- Re: completing-read case problem, Markus Rost, 2004/11/15
- Re: completing-read case problem, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/20
- Re: completing-read case problem, Markus Rost, 2004/11/21
- Re: completing-read case problem, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/11/21
- Re: completing-read case problem, Richard Stallman, 2004/11/22
Re: completing-read case problem, Markus Rost, 2004/11/15