On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:11:05 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This doesn\'t make clear that this only applies to a limited domain of
ASCII-only HTTP headers rather than serving as an overall definition of
case-insensitivity.
It serves as a definition for case-insensitive matching relevant to
XMLHttpRequest.
In any case, I would propose that this be changed as suggested below,
since some programmers forget about locale-specific rules in their
default case-mappings:
--
There is a case-insensitive match of strings s1 and s2 if they compare
identically using the default case foldings defined by Unicode (which
equates the ranges [a-z] and [A-Z]). Note that these do not include
language-specific mappings, such as the dotted/dotless 'i' mappings in
Turkish or Azerbaijani (see Unicode Section 3.13 and the CaseFolding.txt
file in the UCD).
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The current editor's draft
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/#case-insensitive-match has
the following text:
"There is a case-insensitive match of strings s1 and s2 if after mapping
the ASCII character range A-Z to the range a-z both strings are identical."
I don't think that mentioning Unicode is necessary here.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
