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diff --git a/python/python-webencodings/README b/python/python-webencodings/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..c48004c0f24f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/python-webencodings/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +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. |