There appears to be a minor bug in bbdb-rfc822-addresses in the handling
of bad addresses according to RFC 822. I encountered a
wrong-type-argument error while using Gnus with BBDB support.[1] The
error occurred in rfc822-bad-address. I submitted a patch for this
function which eliminated
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes:
Well, Großjohann becomes GROSSJOHANN when upcased. And
Großjohann becomes Grossjohann when you have no Latin-1 characters
available, but that's just a transliteration.
Arguable. Some of us prefer to transliterate ß as sz: Groszjohann.
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Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes:
I think in Sweden, ä and ö are letters in their own right, aren't
they?
Right. As well as å. Not ü though. (And we don't have ß at all.)
While we (Norway) use æ for ä and ø for ö.
The Swedes today uses ä
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IIRC, `ß' becomes `ss' when you change it's case.
So do I take it then that the conversion of `ß' becomes `ss' is the
Right Thing, or what?
I don't think that is right. Afterall, we're talking about
groß vs. GROSS -- and certainly the mails are
On 10 Jul 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote:
I don't mind if people want to use all-caps in their name. It's just
that I never met anyone who *chose* to do it that way. :)
I think it's usual among the French to use all-caps for the family
name (but mixed case for the given name). This way, you can
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.std.internat as well.
Waider == Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Waider On July 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On 05 Jul 2001, Daniel Pittman wrote:
IIRC, `ß' becomes `ss' when you change it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes:
It's very strange that the Germans with their special relation to
the standards did not care to reserve a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
for the cases like this, where
title_case(up_case(Großjohann)) != Großjohann
`Special relation to
On 10 Jul 2001, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
It's very strange that the Germans with their special relation to
the standards did not care to reserve a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
for the cases like this, where
title_case(up_case(Großjohann)) != Großjohann
`Special relation to
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Ronan Waide wrote:
On July 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Of course, /I/ don't hold with frobbing mixed case names into a
different set of case, being as that breaks the choices of the
sender. I would only support frobbing when a name is ALLCAPS. :)
I'd agree with that,
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Ronan Waide wrote:
So do I take it then that the conversion of `ß' becomes `ss' is the
Right Thing, or what?
Well, Großjohann becomes GROSSJOHANN when upcased. And
Großjohann becomes Grossjohann when you have no Latin-1 characters
available, but that's just a
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ronan Waide wrote:
[...]
2. It convert's Kai's nice ß into 'ss' for no good reason. I'm
guessing that this is buried somewhere in mail-extr. If I can't
switch this 'feature' off, I'll be quite upset.
IIRC, `ß' becomes `ss' when you change it's case. Granted, my
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