[html5] r3679 - [] (0) Remove reliance on UTS22, which is apparently too loose. This will be add [...]

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Tue Aug 25 20:58:04 PDT 2009


Author: ianh
Date: 2009-08-25 20:58:03 -0700 (Tue, 25 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 3679

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[] (0) Remove reliance on UTS22, which is apparently too loose. This will be addressed by registering aliases instead. Anne's apparently leading that effort.

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2009-08-26 03:24:56 UTC (rev 3678)
+++ index	2009-08-26 03:58:03 UTC (rev 3679)
@@ -5075,12 +5075,10 @@
 
   <p>When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the
   name or alias of a character encoding to determine if they are
-  equal, user agents must use the Charset Alias Matching rules defined
-  in Unicode Technical Standard #22. <a href=#refsUTS22>[UTS22]</a></p>
+  equal, user agents must remove any leading or trailing <a href=#space-character title="space character">space characters</a> in both names, and
+  then perform the comparison in an <a href=#ascii-case-insensitive>ASCII
+  case-insensitive</a> manner.</p>
 
-  <p class=example>For instance, "GB_2312-80" and "g.b.2312(80)" are
-  considered equivalent names.</p>
-
 <!-- this bit will be replaced by actual alias registrations in due course -->
 
   <p>In addition, user agents must support the aliases given in the
@@ -73839,12 +73837,6 @@
    Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode</a></cite>,
    D. Goldsmith, M. Davis. IETF, May 1997.</dd>
 
-   <dt id=refsUTS22>[UTS22]</dt>
-   <dd><cite><a href=http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/#Charset_Alias_Matching>Charset
-   Alias Matching</a></cite>. In <cite><a href=http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/>UTS #22: Character
-   Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML)</a></cite>, M. Davis,
-   M. Scherer. Unicode Consortium, June 2006.</dd>
-
    <dt id=refsWEBADDRESSES>[WEBADDRESSES]</dt>
    <dd><cite><a href=http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft>Web
    addresses in HTML 5</a></cite>, D. Connolly,

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2009-08-26 03:24:56 UTC (rev 3678)
+++ source	2009-08-26 03:58:03 UTC (rev 3679)
@@ -4776,13 +4776,11 @@
 
   <p>When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the
   name or alias of a character encoding to determine if they are
-  equal, user agents must use the Charset Alias Matching rules defined
-  in Unicode Technical Standard #22. <a
-  href="#refsUTS22">[UTS22]</a></p>
+  equal, user agents must remove any leading or trailing <span
+  title="space character">space characters</span> in both names, and
+  then perform the comparison in an <span>ASCII
+  case-insensitive</span> manner.</p>
 
-  <p class="example">For instance, "GB_2312-80" and "g.b.2312(80)" are
-  considered equivalent names.</p>
-
 <!-- this bit will be replaced by actual alias registrations in due course -->
 
   <p>In addition, user agents must support the aliases given in the
@@ -87710,14 +87708,6 @@
    Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode</a></cite>,
    D. Goldsmith, M. Davis. IETF, May 1997.</dd>
 
-   <dt id="refsUTS22">[UTS22]</dt>
-   <dd><cite><a
-   href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/#Charset_Alias_Matching">Charset
-   Alias Matching</a></cite>. In <cite><a
-   href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/">UTS #22: Character
-   Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML)</a></cite>, M. Davis,
-   M. Scherer. Unicode Consortium, June 2006.</dd>
-
    <dt id="refsWEBADDRESSES">[WEBADDRESSES]</dt>
    <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft">Web
    addresses in HTML 5</a></cite>, D. Connolly,




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