From 6b86940b7b36a6c887c069a6da50d84366e0c671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RichardHitt <rbh00@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 11:51:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Allow nick starting with digit despite rfc 2812 violation

---
 src/common/url.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/common/url.c b/src/common/url.c
index 9b4e30ad..0f88a35b 100644
--- a/src/common/url.c
+++ b/src/common/url.c
@@ -472,7 +472,15 @@ re_email (void)
 #define NICKDIG "0-9"
 /*	Note for NICKSPE:  \\\\ boils down to a single \ */
 #define NICKSPE	"\\[\\]\\\\`_^{|}"
+#if 0
 #define NICK0 "[" NICKPRE "]?[" NICKLET NICKSPE "]"
+#else
+/* Allow violation of rfc 2812 by allowing digit as first char */
+/* Rationale is that do_an_re() above will anyway look up what */
+/* we find, and that WORD_NICK is the last item in the array */
+/* that do_an_re() runs through. */
+#define NICK0 "[" NICKPRE "]?[" NICKLET NICKDIG NICKSPE "]"
+#endif
 #define NICK1 "[" NICKHYP NICKLET NICKDIG NICKSPE "]*"
 #define NICK	NICK0 NICK1