[ticker-dev] Latest draft

[Ian Lister]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Phillips, Matthew wrote:
>[David]
>> Do sticker, aquatik or eTiks support
>> Replaces/Replacement/REPLACEMENT ?
>
>I haven't implemented this in Sticker, partly due to the fact that I
>don't have anything that would use it and partly due to the possible
>hackability opened up by the feature. One solution to the latter might be
>to mark messages intended to be replaced with an attribute.

They are. The Replacement attribute. (Or Replaces or whatever it is)

It refers to a previous replacement value, not to a Message-Id (for
exactly this reason).

>Yes, please :) I'm one of those people that like the "case-preserving but
>not case-sensitive" approach for names that people refer to things by.
>Unlike in programming languages, I can't see a good reason to consider
>CHAT and Chat to be different groups. I realise case-insensitivity is
>complex outside of the Roman alphabet, but I'm willing to deal with that
>if a bunch of irate Arabic speakers complain ;)

I don't think the internationalisation issues should be too bad. The
subscription language provides the fold-case function, which uses the
Unicode case folding tables in the router, which we trust the Unicode
people have done a good job of making sure works appropriately across all
languages and character sets.

I'm pretty confident we won't end up with irate Arabic speakers by making
things case insensitive, but I sometimes get irate about all the English
speakers who have difficulties because of the case sensitivity... ;-)

Ian