diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7f09de7d..1215d15c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Users may have to change how they access the system
 
 ### Corrected Bugs
 
+* Fixed: [clixon_netconf errors on client XML Declaration with valid encoding spec](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/250)
 * Fixed: Yang patterns: \n and other non-printable characters were broken
   * Example: Clixon interpereted them two characters: `\\ n` instead of ascii 10
 * Fixed: The auto-cli identityref did not expand identities in grouping/usecases properly.
diff --git a/lib/src/clixon_xml_parse.y b/lib/src/clixon_xml_parse.y
index 9bfd6d00..19683ccb 100644
--- a/lib/src/clixon_xml_parse.y
+++ b/lib/src/clixon_xml_parse.y
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static int
 xml_parse_encoding(clixon_xml_yacc *xy,
 		   char            *enc)
 {
-    if(strcmp(enc, "UTF-8")){
+    if(strcasecmp(enc, "UTF-8")){
 	clicon_err(OE_XML, XMLPARSE_ERRNO, "Unsupported XML encoding: %s expected UTF-8", enc);
 	free(enc);
 	return -1;
diff --git a/test/test_xml.sh b/test/test_xml.sh
index 2d6f57d6..65d76646 100755
--- a/test/test_xml.sh
+++ b/test/test_xml.sh
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ expecteof "$clixon_util_xml -ol o" 255 '<?xml verion="1.0"?><a/>' '' 2> /dev/nul
 new "XMLdecl version + encoding"
 expecteof "$clixon_util_xml -o" 0 '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><a/>' '<a/>'
 
+# XML processors SHOULD match character encoding names in a case-insensitive way 
+new "XMLdecl encoding case-insensitive"
+expecteof "$clixon_util_xml -o" 0 '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><a/>' '<a/>'
+
 new "XMLdecl version + wrong encoding"
 expecteof "$clixon_util_xml -o" 255 '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><a/>' '' 2> /dev/null