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RE: Are charset names supposed to be case sensitive?

To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>,Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Subject: RE: Are charset names supposed to be case sensitive?
From: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:35:04 +0000
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Thread-topic: Are charset names supposed to be case sensitive?

> * It makes it easier to separate the semantics of the utf-16 alias
>    in the Microsoft listing from the semantics of the UTF-16 name in
>    the IANA registry.

Microsoft's behavior is identical, regardless of casing, whatever you're observing is accidental and shouldn't be relied on.

> * It separates 'unicode' from the trademarked/registered 'UNICODE'.

Not a lawyer, but I don't think the trademark office is going to consider cased versions of the same word sufficiently distinct as to be separate things.

-Shawn

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