Some basic helper functions to deal with encodings of files retrieved
via HTTP.
Download from http://cthedot.de/encutils/
Currently contained functions:
encodingByMediaType(media_type, log=None)
Returns for the given Content-Type a default encoding if available,
e.g. 'utf-8' for 'application/xml'.
getHTTPInfo(httpheaders, log=None)
Finds content-type and encoding information from HTTP header
dictionary. Returns (Content-Type, encoding) tuple which may be
both None. Default encodings of specific Content-Types is used
(see encodingByContentType).
getMetaInfo(text, log=None)
Returns (Content-Type, encoding) tuple from (last) X/HTML meta
element.
guessEncoding(httpheaders, text, log=None)
Tries to find encoding of given text and uses information in
httpheaders and textcontent like HTML meta elements or the XML
declaration (this is not implemented yet). Returns the explicit
or implicit encoding or None. Mismatch reports are written to the
log.
If there is a similar thing out please let me know (I know the Cookbook
XML autodetection script which I like to intregrate).
And I would very much appreciate any feedback about spec compliance,
errors or other problems with the functions too. (See
http://cthedot.de/contact/ or http://cthedot.de/blog/).
Thanks a lot!
chris
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