* David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-13 21:00]: > On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:37, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >>> A) Just reserve ASCII [a-z]. This is very easy to check > >>> for but I'm worried it's carving out too small a space. > >> Why would it be too small? I mean, that's a *lot* of words > >> you can use. > > > > I don't have any particular reason. Just a feeling that > > "7-bit ASCII should be good enough for anyone" is not such > > a safe position for anything wanting to look forward. > > Well, it's not for *everyone*. Just for the folks who are > adding keys to TAP itself, which is a pretty small set of > people, all things told. > > But anyway, I agree that B seems fine and it can always be > reduced to A later, provided, of course, that we only use > ASCII or Latin-1 characters anyway, which seems quite likely > to me.
I agree with David on all counts. [a-z] seems perfectly sufficient to me, but saying “anything for which POSIX `islower` returns true” is acceptably precise. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
