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Re: Registering a charset alias

Erik van der Poel wrote:
> ...
> So I don't think the following spec from HTML 5, section 2.7 is very
> good either:
> 
> "When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the name
> or alias of a character encoding to determine if they are equal, user
> agents must use the Charset Alias Matching rules defined in Unicode
> Technical Standard #22. [UTS22]
> 
> For instance, "GB_2312-80" and "g.b.2312(80)" are considered equivalent names."
> 
> The general approach should be: As lenient as the major browsers, but
> not more lenient. Lenience leads to a proliferation of garbage.
> ...

You may want to send that feedback into the HTML WG...

BR, Julian