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…ement aliases for encodings you didn't support (whatever that would mean).

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Hixie committed Aug 26, 2009
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<p>User agents must support the preferred MIME name of every
character encoding they support that has a preferred MIME name, and
should support all the IANA-registered aliases. <a href=#refsIANACHARSET>[IANACHARSET]</a></p>
should support all the IANA-registered aliases of every character
encoding they support. <a href=#refsIANACHARSET>[IANACHARSET]</a></p>

<p>When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the
name or alias of a character encoding to determine if they are
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<!-- this bit will be replaced by actual alias registrations in due course -->

<p>In addition, user agents must support the aliases given in the
following table, so that labels from the first column are treated as
equivalent to the labels given in the corresponding cell from the
second column on the same row.</p>
following table for every character encoding they support, so that
labels from the first column are treated as equivalent to the labels
given in the corresponding cell from the second column on the same
row.</p>

<table><caption>Additional character encoding aliases</caption>
<thead><tr><th> Alias <th> Corresponding encoding <th> References
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<p>User agents must support the preferred MIME name of every
character encoding they support that has a preferred MIME name, and
should support all the IANA-registered aliases. <a
should support all the IANA-registered aliases of every character
encoding they support. <a
href="#refsIANACHARSET">[IANACHARSET]</a></p>

<p>When comparing a string specifying a character encoding with the
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<!-- this bit will be replaced by actual alias registrations in due course -->

<p>In addition, user agents must support the aliases given in the
following table, so that labels from the first column are treated as
equivalent to the labels given in the corresponding cell from the
second column on the same row.</p>
following table for every character encoding they support, so that
labels from the first column are treated as equivalent to the labels
given in the corresponding cell from the second column on the same
row.</p>

<table>
<caption>Additional character encoding aliases</caption>
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