python-readability/readability/encoding.py
Nathan Breit 75e2e0cb3a Defaulting to utf-8 when chardet returns None
On articles like this one chardet returns None:
http://news.zing.vn/nhip-song-tre/thay-giao-gay-sot-tung-bo-luat-tinh-yeu/a291427.html
This causes exceptions later on when encoding.lower() is called
2014-12-18 18:48:22 -08:00

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import re
import chardet
def get_encoding(page):
# Regex for XML and HTML Meta charset declaration
charset_re = re.compile(r'<meta.*?charset=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
pragma_re = re.compile(r'<meta.*?content=["\']*;?charset=(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
xml_re = re.compile(r'^<\?xml.*?encoding=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]')
declared_encodings = (charset_re.findall(page) +
pragma_re.findall(page) +
xml_re.findall(page))
# Try any declared encodings
if len(declared_encodings) > 0:
for declared_encoding in declared_encodings:
try:
page.decode(custom_decode(declared_encoding))
return custom_decode(declared_encoding)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pass
# Fallback to chardet if declared encodings fail
text = re.sub('</?[^>]*>\s*', ' ', page)
enc = 'utf-8'
if not text.strip() or len(text) < 10:
return enc # can't guess
res = chardet.detect(text)
enc = res['encoding'] or 'utf-8'
#print '->', enc, "%.2f" % res['confidence']
enc = custom_decode(enc)
return enc
def custom_decode(encoding):
"""Overrides encoding when charset declaration
or charset determination is a subset of a larger
charset. Created because of issues with Chinese websites"""
encoding = encoding.lower()
alternates = {
'big5': 'big5hkscs',
'gb2312': 'gb18030',
'ascii': 'utf-8',
'MacCyrillic': 'cp1251',
}
if encoding in alternates:
return alternates[encoding]
else:
return encoding