Re: Are charset names supposed to be case sensitive?

[Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>]

Hi,

No - you make a compelling point, Bjoern.

Leif - I'd like to see every use of 'unicode' in that registration
which means "the Microsoft specification or usage or 'unicode'
as a charset tag" be explicitly rewritten to instead say, e.g.,
"the MS 'unicode' charset" to very clearly distinguish it from
the Unicode/ISO10646 character set and UTF-x encodings.

When I read your current text, the sense of "which unicode"
wanders from paragraph to paragraph (for me).

Cheers,
- Ira



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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:

* 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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