Metadata-Version: 2.0

Name: webencodings

Version: 0.5.1

Summary: Character encoding aliases for legacy web content

Home-page: https://github.com/SimonSapin/python-webencodings

Author: Geoffrey Sneddon

Author-email: me@gsnedders.com

License: BSD

Platform: UNKNOWN

Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta

Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers

Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython

Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy

Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP

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.