When the However, if we have the content type explicitly as Also, when we use Has anyone noticed this before? Why does
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Educated guesses (mentioned above) are probably just a check for For response header For response header Luckily
for us, requests uses chardet library and that usually works quite well (attribute
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bubakbubak 1,33412 silver badges10 bronze badges 3 From requests documentation:
Check the encoding requests used for your page, and if it's not the right one - try to force it to be the one you need. Regarding the differences between answered May 26, 2017 at 13:59
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Hari_pbHari_pb 6,4741 gold badge41 silver badges51 bronze badges 1 The default assumed content encoding for text/html is ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1 :( See RFC-2854. UTF-8 was too young to become the default, it was born in 1993, about the same time as HTML and HTTP. Use
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90009000 39k9 gold badges65 silver badges102 bronze badges 3 What is encoding UTFUTF-8 is one of the most commonly used encodings, and Python often defaults to using it. UTF stands for “Unicode Transformation Format”, and the '8' means that 8-bit values are used in the encoding.
How do I decode a UTFTo decode a string encoded in UTF-8 format, we can use the decode() method specified on strings. This method accepts two arguments, encoding and error . encoding accepts the encoding of the string to be decoded, and error decides how to handle errors that arise during decoding.
What is SIG utf8?"sig" in "utf-8-sig" is the abbreviation of "signature" (i.e. signature utf-8 file). Using utf-8-sig to read a file will treat the BOM as metadata that explains how to interpret the file, instead of as part of the file contents.
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