On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:37:55PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
> > This code only converts A-Z to a-z, all else is left alone.
>
> Right, thanks for the answer. :-)
>
> > Yeah well since it doesn't support LOCALE 'n stuff, it can't now which
> > characters are special in your country.
>
> Indeed, though it doesn't say one way or another about local support.
> I guess the reasonable assumption in that case is that it doesn't,
> but...
I think this assumption is reasonable, but for me the reasoning is: djb
avoids libc where he can. He therefore can't use LOCALE-stuff.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
> > Correct. Uppercase LETTERS (my emphasis :>). The typical preciseness of these
> > manpages suggests to me that if it says letters, then that's all it means,
> > no more, no less...and a quick squizz at the source confirms this.
>
> Ahh, hmm. But ä, ö and å *are* letters in the Finnish alphabet, so by
> that logic it should convert them? My point is that the man page is
> *not* precise in this instance (it doesn't specify only English
> letters), although it is possible that elsewhere it's stated that qmail
> does not have locale support.
The manpage is inprecise, in my opinion. This is ofcourse just a matter of
interpretation.
> Maybe you think of this as obvious, if you live in an English speaking
> country, but it doesn't strike me as such, living in a non-English
> speaking country.
It's obvious to me in some ways, and non-obvious in others. My second
natural language is English, which makes it obvious. But my first natural
language is Dutch, in which accented letters do exist but are not very
common.
> > Oh, and you'd need a *lot* more than two qmail files if it didn't do
> > this. What if someone sent to extensions like Mikko, mIkko, miKko, etc?
>
> Yes, of course. I'd prefer to have only one, but I can live with
> needing two. :-)
AFAICS you will need two in this case.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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