Re: SIMPLE chat: Internationalization and normalization of nicknames

On 3/1/12 5:54 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:

>> OK. It seems that you might also be making some authorization decisions
>> based on the nickname, e.g., if you've reserved a nickname then I can't
>> get that nickname (can I join the chatroom but just not with that
>> nickname?).
>>
>
> Yes, that is true. We do need an equality operator in some sense. (And yes, assuming no other policy issue was blocking you, you could still use a different nickname)

And this presumably needs some notion of canonicalization, so that you 
can't get two nicknames that compare as different but *look* the same.

	Thanks,
	Paul