On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:36:25PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Currently in XEP-0045, roomnicks are case-sensitive. To be precise > roomnicks are handled according to the Resourceprep profile of stringprep: > > http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#bizrules-jids > > This means that the following roomnicks are all different: > > StPeter > stpeter > STPETER > > Some people have pointed out that this can be confusing to end users. >
I think if we want to solve this in a compatible way we should just let the muc server block multiple nicks in the same room with only differ in case (rephrase that in Stringprep section numbers, etc) If a server works that way (and maybe announces with a status code on join) the clients MAY do local case folding as they like. I think this should be allowed without changing the muc XEP at all, it's just something the implementation would need to code. > We could solve it by applying the Nodeprep profile of stringprep, but > that would forbid things like whitespace and the ' and : characters. > (Naturally, those characters could be escaped using XEP-0106 if desired.) > I don't think we should restrict nicks more. Or rather i think nick restrictions should be left to the implementation and it's admins/muc owners. - Martin H.
