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webencodings is a Python implementation of the WHATWG Encoding standard.
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In order to be compatible with legacy web content when interpreting something
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like Content-Type: text/html; charset=latin1, tools need to use a particular
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set of aliases for encoding labels as well as some overriding rules. For
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example, US-ASCII and iso-8859-1 on the web are actually aliases for
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windows-1252, and an UTF-8 or UTF-16 BOM takes precedence over any other
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encoding declaration. The Encoding standard defines all such details so that
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implementations do not have to reverse-engineer each other.
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This module has encoding labels and BOM detection, but the actual
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implementation for encoders and decoders is Python's.
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