[whatwg] US-ASCII vs. ASCII in Web Socket Protocol

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Dec 3 15:38:11 PST 2009


On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Yuzo Fujishima wrote:
>
> I see both "US-ASCII" and "ASCII" are used in: 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol-54
> 
> If they mean the same thing, one should be used consistently.
> 
> In the document, US-ASCII seems to mean encoding while ASCII mean 
> charset. Is this common? (I guess US-ASCII is commonly considered as an 
> alias for ASCII. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Aliases )

I've changed the spec to use "ASCII" consistently.

Cheers,
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