Re: ignore dashes etc. (was Registration of new charset GB18030 (fwd)) from Martin Duerst on 2002-07-19 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from July to September 2002)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:36:58 +0900
To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@us.ibm.com>
Cc: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>, Markus Scherer <markus.scherer@jtcsv.com>
Message-id: <4.2.0.58.J.20020719173526.04ea1350@localhost>

At 20:41 02/07/18 -0700, Mark Davis wrote:

>And what harm does it do, to make the name matching case-insensitive -- 
>especially since a great many implementations do that anyway?

Case-insensitive matching doesn't harm, as 'charset' matching was
always case sensitive in the specs and in all implementations.

This is different from ignore hyphens-underscores-spaces,...,
which is currently not mentioned in any spec.

Regards,    Martin.

Received on Friday, 19 July 2002 04:39:07 UTC