From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: completing-read case problem
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:19:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu7jom50h5.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cnatnj$p2b$1@sea.gmane.org
Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> 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, foo@bar.com does not necessarily equal FOO@bar.com. 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200411101929.iAAJThfq007309@haifa.math.ias.edu>
[not found] ` <E1CTDRk-00077r-Fr@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <200411140703.iAE73Gd1019094@haifa.math.ias.edu>
2004-11-15 14:00 ` completing-read case problem Richard Stallman
2004-11-15 15:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-11-15 18:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-11-15 20:19 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-11-15 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <jwvu0rrgm27.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-15 19:43 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-15 23:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-16 2:52 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-21 1:10 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-21 5:18 ` Markus Rost
2004-11-21 19:02 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-11-22 14:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 4:00 Markus Rost
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