- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:53:19 +0900 (JST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- Cc: jeffs@kant.ee.washington.edu
Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote: > >Is ASCII now considered passe? I spent a good chunk of life memorizing > >ASCII codes.... > > It's not considered passe, it's just that its official name on the > Internet is US-ASCII (capitalization to your liking). > I have added 'ascii' to the list of 'frequent wrong spellings of character > encodings'. Well, actually "ASCII" is an alias of ANSI_X3.4-1968. While US-ASCII is the preferred MIME name for ANSI_X3.4-1968 and people SHOULD use it and the validator MAY give a warning (not an error) if you like, but I don't think the validator should reject a valid alias of registered charset name. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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