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Re: bug ?



On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 21:33, Perry Lorier wrote:
> Undernet states "CHARSET=rfc1459" in the 005 to say that it follows the RFC, 
> I dunno if DALnet does CHARSET=latin1 or ascii or whatever.  Although,
> interestingly enough the RFC even gets it wrong.  In section 2.2 it
> states:
> 
>    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.
> 
> This misses the fact that IRC also treats "^" and "~" to be the same
> charactors (although usually "~" is disallowed in nicknames, go figure)

RFC 2812 fixes that problem. (RFC 2810-2813 update RFC 1459.)

Regards,

Alex.

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