-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/4/10 21:26 , Darren Duncan wrote: > jerry gay wrote: >> are there codepoints in unicode that may be either upper-case or >> lower-case, depending on the charset? if so, then there's ambiguity >> here, depending on the user's locale. i suspect not, but languages >> are strange beasts, and i don't know the answer. > > Just say that names consisting entirely of either ASCII-range uppercase > letters or ASCII-range lowercase letters are reserved, and that names having > either both of those or any of those plus non-ASCII letters are not reserved. > > The only way I see this being a problem is if we forsee that we might want > to have official names going out of the ASCII repertoire, which I would > recommend we don't.
For the first, you're also excluding scripts that lack the notion of case: Hebrew and Arabic, and all of the ideograms, etc. As to the latter, Perl 6 already has «» and ASCII equivalent <<>>; I would expect similar would be possible and supported in this context. (Yes, I know, I'm not helping. Only thing that occurs to me is something like "x-foobie:".) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxaNEIACgkQIn7hlCsL25VyawCeJDcFIYePVqVXs/ICYOXPTdCM 4EsAnAl4FWfDNVXBrBEyVkcRLRdrUq+X =9TYE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
