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Re: Registration of new charset: ISO 8859-16

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:48:55 +0900
To: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>, IANA <iana@icann.org>
Cc: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
Message-id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010825104719.064c4e70@133.27.195.38> 
At 17:44 01/08/24 +0100, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>"IANA" wrote on 2001-08-24 15:30 UTC:
> > Do you prefer the all caps format or lower case?
>
>I prefer the all caps format, simply because all caps is the way how ISO
>etc. is spelled correctly.

I have to say that I don't care which case they are; in fact I think
that leaving some in lower case and some in upper case is a good thing,
because it will remind implementers that case doesn't matter for
charset identifiers. So I suggest not investing unnecessary time
for this.

Regards,  Martin.
Received on Saturday, 25 August 2001 02:11:04 GMT

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