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diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index c46d517248..7506f3b67c 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm @@ -4893,6 +4893,46 @@ and written in Python.") (define-public python2-html5lib-0.9 (package-with-python2 python-html5lib-0.9)) +(define-public python-webencodings + (package + (name "python-webencodings") + (version "0.5") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (pypi-uri "webencodings" version)) + (sha256 + (base32 + "015rw7662lkpb9aqiqah2hbizk6w531badqwjpz41rr47glmxid5")))) + (build-system python-build-system) + (arguments + '(#:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (replace 'check + (lambda _ + (zero? (system* "py.test" "-v" "webencodings/tests.py"))))))) + (native-inputs + `(("python-pytest" ,python-pytest))) + (home-page "https://github.com/SimonSapin/python-webencodings") + (synopsis "Character encoding aliases for legacy web content") + (description + "In order to be compatible with legacy web content when interpreting +something like @code{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, @code{US-ASCII} and @code{iso-8859-1} on +the web are actually aliases for @code{windows-1252}, and an @code{UTF-8} +or @code{UTF-16} BOM takes precedence over any other encoding declaration. +The WHATWG @url{https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/,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.") + (license license:bsd-3))) + +(define-public python2-webencodings + (package-with-python2 python-webencodings)) + (define-public python-urwid (package (name "python-urwid") |