[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1850: Design new caps to be resilient against human transcription errors.

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#1850: Design new caps to be resilient against human transcription errors.
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 Reporter:  nejucomo  |          Owner:  davidsarah
     Type:  defect    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:  undecided
Component:  unknown   |        Version:  1.9.2
 Keywords:  newcaps   |  Launchpad Bug:
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 One important aspect of this ticket is to define the use cases that should
 be covered, for example reading over a phone or writing down on paper.

 I suggest important use cases are:

 * cut'n'paste errors, such as:
  * dropping characters off the front or end
  * including characters outside the cap, especially whitespace
 * link-generation-software parsing:
  * For example a blog may make a link for "http://example.com?foo:bar:quz"
 which drops ":bar:quz"

 One suggested solution is internal checksums.

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1850>
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