[whatwg] [wf2] case-insensitive is not defined in terms of Unicode

• From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:54:20 -0400
• Message-ID: <42E0A62C.6080108@inkedblade.net>

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> From:
>  <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#methodAndEnctypes>
> # The value of the enctype attribute must be dispatched using a
> # case-insensitive literal comparison.
> 
> What exactly does this mean, in terms of Unicode?

The syntax for content types allows US-ASCII only, so Unicode
case mapping [1], which defines case-insensitive matching for
Unicode strings, is irrelevant.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr21/

~fantasai

Received on Friday, 22 July 2005 00:54:20 UTC