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jlou / packages / webencodings 0.5.1

Character encoding aliases for legacy web content

Installers

  • linux-64 v0.5.1

conda install

To install this package run one of the following:
conda install jlou::webencodings

Description

python-webencodings

This is a Python implementation of the WHATWG Encoding standard <http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/>_.

  • Latest documentation: http://packages.python.org/webencodings/
  • Source code and issue tracker: https://github.com/gsnedders/python-webencodings
  • PyPI releases: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/webencodings
  • License: BSD
  • Python 2.6+ and 3.3+

In order to be compatible with legacy web content when interpreting something like Content-Type: text/html; charset=latin1, tools need to use a particular set of aliases for encoding labels as well as some overriding rules. For example, US-ASCII and iso-8859-1 on the web are actually aliases for windows-1252, and an UTF-8 or UTF-16 BOM takes precedence over any other encoding declaration. The Encoding standard defines all such details so that implementations do not have to reverse-engineer each other.

This module has encoding labels and BOM detection, but the actual implementation for encoders and decoders is Python’s.


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