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Bug 12203 - Inconsistent capitalization of "Windows". IANA 1252 uses lowercase, IANA 1254 uses uppercase, so ignore offical versions and go with what makes sense, which is "Windows"
Summary: Inconsistent capitalization of "Windows". IANA 1252 uses lowercase, IANA 1254...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 12204 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-02-28 09:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-02-28 09:18:44 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#table-encoding-overrides

Comment:
Inconsistent capitalization of "Windows". IANA 1252 uses lowercase, IANA 1254
uses uppercase, so ignore offical versions and go with what makes sense, which
is "Windows"

Posted from: 213.236.208.22
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2011-02-28 12:55:31 UTC 
*** Bug 12204 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-05-05 08:25:14 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I'm using the cases given in http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets since those are the cases that I'm requiring various implementations to use (the canonical case).
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:02:40 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1