[whatwg] Superset encodings [Re: ISO-8859-* and the C1 control range]

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Jun 5 01:28:44 PDT 2009


On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:14:46 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> >>
> >> Is the implication here that Shift_JIS and Shift-JIS are distinct
> >> despite the encoding matching rules in Unicode not allowing for that? If
> >> that is the case I think we need new matching rules.
> >>
> >> If the implication is something else I'd like to know.
> >
> > I don't understand the question.
> 
> Part of my email was the data that Shift_JIS supposedly is a subset of 
> Windows-31J and Shift-JIS supposedly is a subset of Windows-932. (Note 
> the dash versus underscore.)

Ah, ok. I thought you were refering to the change I made to the spec. My 
apologies.

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