hixie: Remove reliance on UTS22, which is apparently too loose. This will be addressed by registering aliases instead. Anne's apparently leading that effort. (whatwg r3679)

hixie: Remove reliance on UTS22, which is apparently too loose. This
will be addressed by registering aliases instead. Anne's apparently
leading that effort. (whatwg r3679)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.2857&r2=1.2858&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=3678&to=3679

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--- Overview.html 26 Aug 2009 03:23:34 -0000 1.2857
+++ Overview.html 26 Aug 2009 03:56:41 -0000 1.2858
@@ -4581,11 +4581,9 @@
 
   <p>When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the
   name or alias of a character encoding to determine if they are
-  equal, user agents must use the Charset Alias Matching rules defined
-  in Unicode Technical Standard #22. <a href="#refsUTS22">[UTS22]</a></p>
-
-  <p class="example">For instance, "GB_2312-80" and "g.b.2312(80)" are
-  considered equivalent names.</p>
+  equal, user agents must remove any leading or trailing <a href="#space-character" title="space character">space characters</a> in both names, and
+  then perform the comparison in an <a href="#ascii-case-insensitive">ASCII
+  case-insensitive</a> manner.</p>
 
 <!-- this bit will be replaced by actual alias registrations in due course -->
 
@@ -17582,7 +17580,7 @@
   <a href="#reflect">reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the same
   name.</p>
 
-  </div><h4 id="video"><span class="secno">4.8.7 </span>The <dfn><code>video</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/10">ISSUE-10</a> (video-smil), <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/9">ISSUE-9</a> (video-synchronization) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/7">ISSUE-7</a> (video-codecs) block progress to Last Call</span><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
+  </div><h4 id="video"><span class="secno">4.8.7 </span>The <dfn><code>video</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments. </i><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/9">ISSUE-9</a> (video-synchronization), <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/7">ISSUE-7</a> (video-codecs) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/10">ISSUE-10</a> (video-smil) block progress to Last Call</span><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd><a href="#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
    <dd><a href="#phrasing-content">Phrasing content</a>.</dd>
    <dd><a href="#embedded-content">Embedded content</a>.</dd>
@@ -53437,7 +53435,7 @@
   the ranges U+0041 .. U+005A (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A to LATIN CAPITAL
   LETTER Z) and U+0061 .. U+007A (LATIN SMALL LETTER A to LATIN SMALL
   LETTER Z). For convenience, in this section this is just referred to
-  as "case-insensitive".<h4 id="the-doctype"><span class="secno">9.1.1 </span>The DOCTYPE</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/54">ISSUE-54</a> (doctype-legacy-compat) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4">ISSUE-4</a> (html-versioning) block progress to Last Call</span><p>A <dfn id="syntax-doctype" title="syntax-doctype">DOCTYPE</dfn> is a mostly useless,
+  as "case-insensitive".<h4 id="the-doctype"><span class="secno">9.1.1 </span>The DOCTYPE</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><span><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4">ISSUE-4</a> (html-versioning) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/54">ISSUE-54</a> (doctype-legacy-compat) block progress to Last Call</span><p>A <dfn id="syntax-doctype" title="syntax-doctype">DOCTYPE</dfn> is a mostly useless,
   but required, header.<p class="note">DOCTYPEs are required for legacy reasons. When
   omitted, browsers tend to use a different rendering mode that is
   incompatible with some specifications. Including the DOCTYPE in a
@@ -67588,12 +67586,6 @@
    Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode</a></cite>,
    D. Goldsmith, M. Davis. IETF, May 1997.</dd>
 
-   <dt id="refsUTS22">[UTS22]</dt>
-   <dd><cite><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/#Charset_Alias_Matching">Charset
-   Alias Matching</a></cite>. In <cite><a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/">UTS #22: Character
-   Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML)</a></cite>, M. Davis,
-   M. Scherer. Unicode Consortium, June 2006.</dd>
-
    <dt id="refsWEBADDRESSES">[WEBADDRESSES]</dt>
    <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft">Web
    addresses in HTML 5</a></cite>, D. Connolly,

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