[Expat-discuss] iso-8859-1 "unknown encoding" ?

[Karl Waclawek]

Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to expat and doing something basically wrong :{)
> 
> I'm using expat-2005-01-28. I've created parser with 
> XML_ParserCreate(NULL) and simple element start and end handlers.
> When I'm passing "iso-8859-1" xml buffer to XML_Parse() I'm getting 
> error 18 ( unknown encoding ). BTW xml without encoding specification
> parsed just fine.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> How should I handle the xml if I do not know from the beginning what
> kind on encoding it will use?

You only need to specify an encoding if the document does not have
an XML declaration (with a specified encoding) and the actual
encoding is not UTF-8, so that you have to force the parser to treat
it a specific way. For real unusual encodings you may have to do
that as well, since the parser may not be able to read the XML declaration.

Karl