- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:54:59 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 12/17/12 4:47 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: >> It's an artifact of ASCII case insensitivity not being defined >> precisely. Huh, you say? Seems like a no-brainer but ASCII case >> insensitivity can be defined as either (1) lowercase the characters >> [A-Z] in both strings and compare characters or (2) map all Unicode >> characters that have lowercase mappings in the ASCII range to their >> lowercase mappings in both strings and compare characters. > > Note that this is why I defined the term "match > ASCII-case-insensitively" precisely in the Syntax spec: > <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-syntax/#ascii-case-insensitive>. (I > think my definition is clumsy, but it works and is precise.) Can we get http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#case-sensitivity-and-string-comparison factored out somewhere where specs won't have to keep copy/pasting it? ;) -Boris
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