| 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. |