diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'python/python3-webencodings/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | python/python3-webencodings/README | 13 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/python/python3-webencodings/README b/python/python3-webencodings/README deleted file mode 100644 index 736e9a2870..0000000000 --- a/python/python3-webencodings/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +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. |