python2-webencodings 0.5.1 Character encoding aliases for legacy web content
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 a UTF-8
or UTF-16
BOM takes precedence over any other encoding declaration. The WHATWG Encoding standard defines all such details so that implementations do not have to reverse-engineer each other.
This module implements the Encoding standard and has encoding labels and BOM detection, but the actual implementation for encoders and decoders is Python’s.
- Website: https://github.com/SimonSapin/python-webencodings
- License: Modified BSD
- Package source: python-web.scm
- Patches: None
- Builds: x86_64-linux, i686-linux