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In order to be compatible with legacy web content when interpreting
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something like Content-Type: text/html; charset=latin1, tools need
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to use a particular set of aliases for encoding labels as well as
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some overriding rules.
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For example, US-ASCII and iso-8859-1 on the web are actually aliases for
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windows-1252, and an UTF-8 or UTF-16 BOM takes precedence over any other
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encoding declaration.
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The Encoding standard defines all such details so that implementations
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do not have to reverse-engineer each other.
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This module has encoding labels and BOM detection, but the actual
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implementation for encoders and decoders is Python's.
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