Re: Character Set Alias Matching from Ian Hickson on 2009-02-13 (public-html@w3.org from February 2009)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:21:32 +0000 (UTC)
To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0902130321250.28232@hixie.dreamhostps.com>

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> 
> HTML 5 currently defines that character set names must be matched with 
> US-ASCII whitespace and punctuation ignored. However, Unicode TR22 
> defines a slightly different algorithm at 
> <http://unicode.org/reports/tr22/#Charset_Alias_Matching>. Should the 
> two not become one?

Fixed.

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