- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:27:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, fantasai wrote: > > 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. You're assuming that all enctype attributes are conformant. There is no reason to assume that. Also, case-insensitive has to be defined either way, we might as well use a generic definition that works for everything (even if for some attributes it can be implemented in a more optimised fashion). > [1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr21/ TR #21 is obsolete in Unicode 4.x. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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