Re: Registering a charset alias

[Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>]

> On 2009/08/15 8:17, Erik van der Poel wrote:
> > No, I don't think we should recommend behavior that is more lenient
> > than what the major browsers currently do. (I believe the major
> > browsers don't strip "x-"?)

> Very important indeed. There is a big difference between tolerating
> existing crap and generating, or encouraging the generation, of new crap.

Nicely put. I completely agree. Perhaps we need two fields, one for legitimate
aliases that are OK to use, and another "aka" field for labels known to be
used in the wild but which are expressly not recommended.

				Ned