[whatwg] [wf2] case-insensitive is not defined in terms of Unicode

[Ian Hickson]

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TR #21 is obsolete in Unicode 4.x.

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