Re: [css3-fonts][css-variables][css-counter-styles-3][css3-values] Case sensitivity of user-defined identifiers from fantasai on 2012-10-02 (www-style@w3.org from October 2012)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:31:51 -0700
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <506AA677.2010906@inkedblade.net>

On 10/01/2012 10:41 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Okay, based on everyone's feedback, it seems that the best way to go
> is to just do ASCII case-insensitivity.  It matches HTML, it avoids
> some pitfalls present in doing naive Unicode case-insensitivity (which
> we're probably stuck with anyway, due to not having the ability to tag
> things with the language it's in, as you can do in HTML), and it's
> fast for performing matching lots of times against the same strings,
> which is impossible with *proper* Unicode case-insensitivity.
>
> Let's resolve this at the next telcon and close the issue, then!

I think you'll want to consult the i18nwg on this first before closing it.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2012 08:32:20 UTC