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authorDave Woodfall <dave@slackbuilds.org>2021-05-21 08:55:48 +0100
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+webencodings is a Python implementation of the WHATWG Encoding standard.
+
+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.