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

[Karl Waclawek]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 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.


 From the code it looks like Expat does it case-insensitive (function streqci).
So, Alexander's file should work. Alexander, please e-mail us a small example document.

Karl