Philip Guenther wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ken Murchison wrote:
Alexey Melnikov wrote:
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I actually have a problem with *numbers* being case-insensitive. Cyrus
Sieve doesn't accept "k", "m" and "g" prefixes in numbers.
So I would like to poll the WG regarding this issue. Do people want
to make to make number case-insensitive, or should this change be
undone?
(In the latter case there is one example in 3028bis-10 which uses
lowercase 'k' now, which has to change)
Obviously, digits are case-insensitive, but by stating "number" this
also includes QUANTIFIER, which only allows uppercase per the ABNF.
Nope. RFC 3028 said:
QUANTIFIER = "K" / "M" / "G"
Literal strings in ABNF are always case-insensitive.
Ok, you are right. But many people got beaten by this ABNF "feature".
So the question is: was this a bug in the grammar or a bug in those
implementations?
Indeed.
I know that the Sendmail implementation has treated them as
case-insensitive from its beginning.