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Re: Registering a charset alias



* Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>I was wondering if it is possible to register a charset alias. HTML5
>currently defines three,
>
>  x-sjis       windows-31J
>  windows-932  windows-31J
>  x-x-big5     Big5
>
>and it would be nice if these could instead be in the official registry.
>
>The reason HTML5 has these is that user agents have long implemented
>these for compatibility with Web sites.

As far as I can tell, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera do not
support the label "windows-932". The registered alias csWindows31J
is supported by Internet Explorer and Opera but not Firefox, while
the label Windows-31J is supported by Opera and Firefox but not IE.

If you also consider http://www.w3.org/Submission/japanese-xml/ I'd
say little good can come from extending the registry for the first
two of your cases.
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