Re: [Lynx-dev] [PATCH] accept <?xml encoding='UTF-8'?>

[humm]

Quoth Mouse:
> > -               flag = !StrNCmp(t, "utf-8", 5);
> > +               flag = !strncasecomp(t, "utf-8", 5);
>
> I haven't read the full context here, so I could be a bit off-base,
> but, surely using strncasecmp (or strncasecomp, whatever that is) is a
> bit dodgy here?  You don't want "utf-8-is-stupid" to be taken as
> "utf-8", surely?  (Not that I've ever seen the former in the wild, and
> I haven't actually read the spec myself, but I doubt it considers all
> strings beginning with UTF-8 to be equivalent to UTF-8.)

You are entirely correct.  This is one hacky parser.  It does consider 
anything prefixed with utf-8 to be equivalent to utf-8 and that 
absolutely is bad behavior.  By all means, send patches if you will.