Character Set Alias Matching from Geoffrey Sneddon on 2009-02-01 (public-html@w3.org from February 2009)

From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:38:18 +0000
To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <8B19256D-971D-48C9-A2A9-1F547EB851B0@googlemail.com>

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?

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Geoffrey Sneddon
<http://gsnedders.com/>

Received on Sunday, 1 February 2009 14:38:56 UTC