Initial commit: LICENSE, README, and importable Python package.

Author: SimonSapin

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+Copyright (c) 2012 by Simon Sapin.
+
+Some rights reserved.
+
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+
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+
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+python-webencodings
+===================
+
+This is a Python implementation of the `WHATWG Encoding standard
+<http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/>`.
+
+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 an UTF-8 or UTF-16 BOM takes precedence
+over any other encoding declaration.
+
+The Encoding standard defines all such details so that implementations do
+not have to reverse-engineer each other.

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+"""
+
+    webencodings
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    This is a Python implementation of the `WHATWG Encoding standard
+    <http://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/>`. See README for details.
+
+    :copyright: Copyright 2012 by Simon Sapin
+    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+
+"""