Re: Registering a charset alias

[Tony Hansen <tony@att.com>]

+1

Ned Freed wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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