Subj : Valid conference names
To   : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Nil Alexandrov
Date : Mon Nov 15 2021 08:25 am

Hello, Tim!

Monday November 15 2021 03:47, from Tim Schattkowsky -> All:

 TS> is there anyplace where it is defined, what a valid fidonet conference
 TS> name is (syntactically).

http://ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0074.001

> CONFERENCE is the name of the conference. The
> conference name is composed of ASCII characters in
> the range 33 to 96 and 123 to 126.  The conference
> name shall be no more than 60 characters in length.

 TS> I would suspect, that it has to be latin letters only plus numbers and
 TS> a few special chars and matching the name is case-insensitve!?

Technically, lower case letters are not allowed, but there are plenty of software in the wild which accept any letter case. Basically, echo tag is not case-sensitive.

 TS> Also, in my world conference names should be presented as uppercase.

True.

 TS> Background: I am rewriting part of the areas management code in
 TS> winpoint and ran into some interesting corner cases ...

FTSC can help you.

Best Regards, Nil
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