[ expat-Bugs-3514595 ] "Unknown encoding error" with "iso-8859-15"

Bugs item #3514595, was opened at 2012-04-03 07:20
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Category: None
>Group: Not a Bug
Status: Open
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: "Unknown encoding error" with "iso-8859-15"

Initial Comment:
hello,
I have 2 files which looks similar except for the encoding. One (OK) is "iso-8859-1", the other (KO) is "iso-8859-15".
I have tried EXPAT from version 2.0 to 2.1 and both generates an error when parsing the "iso-8859-15" file.
Can you please explain if this is a bug or not and if not why??
I have downloaded expat from this link
http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat_win32/2.1.0/expat-win32bin-2.1.0.exe/download
and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat_win32/2.0.0/expat_win32bin_2_0_0.exe/download

and this is my result
C:\Expat-2.1.0\Bin>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 455A-51B9

 Directory of C:\Expat-2.1.0\Bin

03/04/2012  16:01    <DIR>          .
03/04/2012  16:01    <DIR>          ..
03/04/2012  14:35             5.176 FILE_KO.xml
03/04/2012  14:35             1.419 FILE_OK.xml
24/03/2012  15:32           131.584 libexpat.dll
24/03/2012  15:32            17.234 libexpat.lib
24/03/2012  15:32           498.530 libexpatMT.lib
24/03/2012  15:32           134.656 libexpatw.dll
24/03/2012  15:32            17.316 libexpatw.lib
24/03/2012  15:32           515.268 libexpatwMT.lib
24/03/2012  15:32            70.144 xmlwf.exe
               9 File(s)      1.391.327 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  43.431.870.464 bytes free

C:\Expat-2.1.0\Bin>xmlwf.exe FILE_KO.xml
FILE_KO.xml:1:30: unknown encoding

C:\Expat-2.1.0\Bin>xmlwf.exe FILE_OK.xml

C:\Expat-2.1.0\Bin>

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>Comment By: Karl Waclawek (kwaclaw)
Date: 2012-04-03 08:32

Message:
Expat does not support iso-8859-15. It only supports UTF-8, UTF-16,
ISO-8859-1, and US-ASCII. The XML specification does not require an XML
parser to support anything else. Your best bet is to convert the document
to UTF-8 or UTF-16.

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