- From: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:18:19 -0400
- To: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > The character encoding identification code in the Opera web browser > does precisely the same thing (it also ignores underscores). We had > lots of trouble with people mixing up dashes and underscores, and > inserting them in unexpected places, and did this to reduce our > ever-increasing list of aliases. We did the same in the Tango browser c. 1996. IIRC, we had a three-step matching procedure: 1) try an exact (but case-insensitive) match 2) try again, ignoring hyphens, underscores and periods 3) try again, ignoring any "x-" prefix We never had any complaint. -- François Yergeau
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