Re: [xml] Bug in encoding detection with document()

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Chuck Bearden wrote:
> It appears that libxslt1.1 pays attention to the charset declaration in the 
> Content-Type HTTP header when retrieving XML files with MIME types of 
> application/xml or text/xml via the document() function.  If a misconfigured 
> web server sends "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-15" but the XML 
> file itself has no encoding declaration in the XML prolog (and is thus to be 
> taken as UTF-8), libxslt treats the incoming file as ISO-8859-15 and so 
> mangles byte sequences that express e.g. many common vowels with diacritics. 

The charset parameter takes precedence over internal labels and defaults
so it is the misconfigured server that mangles those sequences. See e.g.
RFC 3023 for a discussion.
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