> Is my understanding correct - does expat feed UTF-8 text to clients when
> parsing?
Yes.
> Can expat be asked to feed clients iso-8859-1?
No.
> If the client must convert manually, are there any helper functions in
> expat/xmltok?
Not for converting to iso-8859-1.
> If I use the unicode build of expat, does it feed utf-8, unicode or utf-16?
It feeds UTF-16 (the same as Unicode 2).
James