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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Thursday 03 February 2005 14:19, Karl Waclawek wrote:
 > I am not sure, but it could be that encoding ids are case-sensitive.
 > Expat should understand it.

The XML 1.0 specification says in section 4.3.3: "XML processors SHOULD match 
character encoding names in a case-insensitive way".

If we're not doing that, it's almost a bug, but I'll admit I use lower-case 
consistently.  I consider a "SHOULD" to be quite important.


  -Fred

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