[geos-devel] Re: WKTReader requiring uppercase keywords?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Does anyone know why the WKTReader requires the WKT keywords like "POINT"
>> to be in upper case?
> 
> Original OGC spefication of BNF was not clear about case-sensitivity of
> Well-Known-Text
> and perhaps GEOS assumed it's safer to follow WKT examples presented by OGC.
> More recent spec is more specific and says: "Well known text is case
> insensitive."
> 
> There was similar discussion http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/332

Mateusz,

Excellent, I'll make the WKTReader case insensitive.

Best regards,
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