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Re: Are charset names supposed to be case sensitive?

To: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Are charset names supposed to be case sensitive?
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:20:12 +0100
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* Ira McDonald wrote:
>I'm very uncomfortable about registering (in whatever case)
>'unicode' as a deprecated limited use charset name for some
>flavor of UTF-16 (just the BMP?).
>
>This has great potential to add confusion to an already confused
>situation, IMHO.

Would you rather say nothing about 'unicode' than saying "This was a
very bad idea, don't do anything like it ever again" in the registry?
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