"Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote in message news:43A41BF4.2090608@gmail.com...
Domas Mituzas wrote:
Therefore
capitalisation is a sure method of preventing conflicts.
If our software does not
take this capitalisation into account, it is our
code that is at fault.
Was this... a... joke? :)
Since when domain names are case sensitive?
Domas
Hoi,
It is not a joke. When we use SIL codes and intermingle them with ISO-639
codes, it is our responsibility that we ensure the right distinction. You
cannot mix two standards and expect them to be correct blindly. It is our
software that implements standards and consequently when yet another
standard makes that we cannot do it implicitly we have to do it
explicitly.
If someone else has already pointed this out, then sorry for duplicating the
effort, but I'm afraid the "joke" is on you.
You are suggesting that we distinguish between "SIL" and "ISO" codes
for new
languages by using lowercase for the former and UPPERCASE for the latter.
These codes will be used to specify the sub-domains for the wikipedia
concerned (e.g.
ISOCODE.wikipedia.org,
silcode.wikipedia.org).
Brace yourself, here comes the "joke": domains are CaSe-InSeNsItIvE by
design, always have been, likely always will be.
Therefore
EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG ==
en.wikipedia.org ==EN.wikipedia.ORG ==
En.WiKiPeDiA.oRg and so on for any combination you could ever make up.
This a fundamental part of the Internet and has been since inception.
Nothing we could ever do within the Mediawiki code could ever do anything
about it, explicitly or implicitly.
HTH HAND
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]