Re: [encoding] Consider making the DOM name the canonical name (#32) from Henri Sivonen on 2016-01-25 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from January 2016)

From: Henri Sivonen <notifications@github.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:57:03 -0800
To: whatwg/encoding <encoding@noreply.github.com>
Message-ID: <whatwg/encoding/issues/32/174419657@github.com>

> potential future uses, but those should probably not exist since there's utf-8.

Indeed.

> (Note that it's not 100% IANA casing

Good point. Not only `GB18030` vs. `gb18030` but also `ibm866` vs. `IBM866`. Now I really wonder where WebKit got its casing from. Did they copy Gecko after all but failed to copy `gbk`?

Anyway, I still think the concept _name_ should directly be what's currently the DOM _compatibility name_.

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