[whatwg] Fwd: Remarks on HTML5 (ASCII / Unicode)

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Sat Apr 4 02:43:00 PDT 2009


On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:06:55 +0200, Kristof Zelechovski  
<giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote:
> I suppose that converting a string to uppercase is an action relevant  
> only to cases where only ASCII character set is allowed in the argument,  
> such as HTML element names.  Within this restricted application domain,  
> converting to uppercase has the same effect as converting to uppercase  
> ASCII.

That's not true. You can get Unicode characters in HTML element names.  
(You still want to lowercase only the ASCII characters though.)


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