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1 Metadata-Version: 1.1 2 Name: webencodings 3 Version: 0.5.1 4 Summary: Character encoding aliases for legacy web content 5 Home-page: https://github.com/SimonSapin/python-webencodings 6 Author: Geoffrey Sneddon 7 Author-email: me@gsnedders.com 8 License: BSD 9 Description: python-webencodings 10 =================== 11 12 This is a Python implementation of the `WHATWG Encoding standard 13 <http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/>`_. 14 15 * Latest documentation: http://packages.python.org/webencodings/ 16 * Source code and issue tracker: 17 https://github.com/gsnedders/python-webencodings 18 * PyPI releases: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/webencodings 19 * License: BSD 20 * Python 2.6+ and 3.3+ 21 22 In order to be compatible with legacy web content 23 when interpreting something like ``Content-Type: text/html; charset=latin1``, 24 tools need to use a particular set of aliases for encoding labels 25 as well as some overriding rules. 26 For example, ``US-ASCII`` and ``iso-8859-1`` on the web are actually 27 aliases for ``windows-1252``, and an UTF-8 or UTF-16 BOM takes precedence 28 over any other encoding declaration. 29 The Encoding standard defines all such details so that implementations do 30 not have to reverse-engineer each other. 31 32 This module has encoding labels and BOM detection, 33 but the actual implementation for encoders and decoders is Python’s. 34 35 Platform: UNKNOWN 36 Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta 37 Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers 38 Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License 39 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python 40 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2 41 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6 42 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7 43 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 44 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3 45 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4 46 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5 47 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6 48 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython 49 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy 50 Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP