Bug #81583 for Data-GUID-Any: output case violates "standards"

Fri Nov 30 15:59:40 2012 BKATZUNG [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

output case violates "standards"

Hexadecimal values should output lowercase for values 'a' through 'f' per RFC 4122 Section 3 ("The hexadecimal values "a" through "f" are output as lower case characters and are case insensitive on input.") and ITU-T Rec. X.667 (09/2004) Section 6.5.4 ("Software generating the hexadecimal representation of a UUID shall not use upper case letters.")

Fri Nov 30 17:05:16 2012 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Nov 30 15:59:40 2012, BKATZUNG wrote: Show quoted text

> Hexadecimal values should output lowercase for values 'a' through 'f' > per RFC 4122 Section 3 ("The hexadecimal values "a" through "f" are > output as lower case characters and are case insensitive on input.") and > ITU-T Rec. X.667 (09/2004) Section 6.5.4 ("Software generating the > hexadecimal representation of a UUID shall not use upper case letters.")

This was, IIRC, done to be consistent with Data::UUID, which uses uppercase. I'm not sure the code should change at this point, but it should be documented. I need to ponder it more.

Fri Nov 30 17:05:17 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Nov 30 22:24:12 2012 BKATZUNG [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Nov 30 17:05:16 2012, DAGOLDEN wrote: Show quoted text

> This was, IIRC, done to be consistent with Data::UUID, which uses

uppercase. Show quoted text

> > I'm not sure the code should change at this point, but it should be > documented. > > I need to ponder it more.

Perhaps call an "xc" function instead of "uc" that returns lower case if a ":lower_case" flag was set upon import, else return upper case for backward compatibility (as suggested by Michael Wolf in https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64758 for Data::UUID).

Mon Dec 03 12:01:18 2012 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I have uploaded 0.004, which documents the variance from the RFC and allows lower case output by setting $Data::GUID::Any::UC to a false value.

Mon Dec 03 12:01:19 2012 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'