[Python-ideas] Py3 unicode impositions

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Christopher Reay
<christopherreay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Web browsers can parse pages with multiple encodings seemingly perfectly
> into the correct display characters. A quick copy and paste produces UTF-8
> encoded text in the clip board. (on linux)
>
> HOW DO THEY DO IT.. can we have their libraries? :)

The "chardet" package is in fact a port of Mozilla's encoding guessing code.

Cheers,
Chris