diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7ebab61a..63fdb698 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu May 31 20:18:59 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
+
+	* encoding.c: Robert Collins provided a patch to add the
+	  "US-ASCII" encoding alias
+
 Wed May 30 21:12:45 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
 
 	* xpath.c encoding.[ch]: William M. Brack provided a set of UTF8
diff --git a/encoding.c b/encoding.c
index c0b73163..f86adf3e 100644
--- a/encoding.c
+++ b/encoding.c
@@ -1571,6 +1571,7 @@ xmlInitCharEncodingHandlers(void) {
           xmlNewCharEncodingHandler("UTF-16BE", UTF16BEToUTF8, UTF8ToUTF16BE);
     xmlNewCharEncodingHandler("ISO-8859-1", isolat1ToUTF8, UTF8Toisolat1);
     xmlNewCharEncodingHandler("ASCII", asciiToUTF8, UTF8Toascii);
+    xmlNewCharEncodingHandler("US-ASCII", asciiToUTF8, UTF8Toascii);
 #ifdef LIBXML_HTML_ENABLED
     xmlNewCharEncodingHandler("HTML", NULL, UTF8ToHtml);
 #endif