s/latin-1/latin1/g
diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/misc/xmlWriter.py b/Lib/fontTools/misc/xmlWriter.py
index 70a6a85..29739c1 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/misc/xmlWriter.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/misc/xmlWriter.py
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
 		"""Writes a bytes() sequence into the XML, escaping
 		non-ASCII bytes.  When this is read in xmlReader,
 		the original bytes can be recovered by encoding to
-		'latin-1'."""
-		self._writeraw(escape8bit(data.decode('latin-1')))
+		'latin1'."""
+		self._writeraw(escape8bit(data.decode('latin1')))
 	
 	def write_noindent(self, string):
 		"""Writes text without indentation."""