Re: Registration of new charset GB18030 (fwd)

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

Good thing to learn about this practical experience.
It may be possible to add a rule to the IANA registry
that there should be no registrations that only
differ in hyphens or underscores.

On the other hand, I'm really opposed to make 'ignore
hyphens' the official policy. We have learned the hard
way that bugwards comptibility leads nowhere.

Regards,    Martin.


At 18:27 02/07/15 +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

>* 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.
>
>--
>Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian         <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
>ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC        <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >