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Re: Registering a charset alias
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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...
Done. (Sent to public-html-comments.)
Erik