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Package: python2-webencodings @ 0.5.1

Synopsis

Character encoding aliases for legacy web content

Description

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 a UTF-8 or UTF-16 BOM takes precedence over any other encoding declaration. The WHATWG Encoding standard defines all such details so that implementations do not have to reverse-engineer each other.

This module implements the Encoding standard and has encoding labels and BOM detection, but the actual implementation for encoders and decoders is Python’s.

Home page
https://github.com/SimonSapin/python-webencodings
Location
gnu/packages/python-web.scm (line: 1262, column: 2)
License

Lint warnings

LinterMessageLocation
input-labels

Identify input labels that do not match package names

label 'python-pytest' does not match package name 'python2-pytest'
optional-tests

Make sure tests are only run when requested

the 'check' phase should respect #:tests?