On 2023-08-15, at 7:01 AM, Tobias Pape Das.Linux@gmx.de wrote:
Sanitize is typically used to remove "dangerous" items (ie, characters). The term is commonly used in string processing. Normalization suggests there is a "normal form" (eg, "all login names shall be lowercase") as opposed to "error avoidance" (eg, "no login name shall use underscores").
(thus, sanitation would turn "hans_wurst" into, maybe "hans.wurst", normalization would turn "HansWurst" into "hanswurst")
yes, there's an overlap.
Just what I was about to say. I +1 the proposal
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Life would be much easier if I had the source code.