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diff --git a/python/python-webencodings/README b/python/python-webencodings/README deleted file mode 100644 index c48004c0f2..0000000000 --- a/python/python-webencodings/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -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. |