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date | Sat, 02 May 2020 07:14:21 -0400 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/webencodings-0.5.1.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst Sat May 02 07:14:21 2020 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +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. + +