Re: Registration of new charset GB18030 (fwd)

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no>]

* Mark Davis
|
| Because of the number of people that put dashes in strange places in
| the names, and because no names are distinguished (point to
| different character conversion mappings) on the basis of dashes, in
| ICU we switched to a policy of ignoring all dashes (we ignore case
| also). That turned out to be much simpler, and might be worth
| considering for the iana registry.

I second that.

The character encoding identification code in the Opera web browser
does precisely the same thing (it also ignores underscores). We had
lots of trouble with people mixing up dashes and underscores, and
inserting them in unexpected places, and did this to reduce our
ever-increasing list of aliases.

So far, nobody has complained.

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