lib/web/BeautifulSoup.py
def _toUnicode(self, data, encoding):
        '''Given a string and its encoding, decodes the string into Unicode.
        %encoding is a string recognized by encodings.aliases'''

        # strip Byte Order Mark (if present)
        if (len(data) >= 4) and (data[:2] == '\xfe\xff') \
               and (data[2:4] != '\x00\x00'):
            encoding = 'utf-16be'
            data = data[2:]
        elif (len(data) >= 4) and (data[:2] == '\xff\xfe') \
                 and (data[2:4] != '\x00\x00'):
            encoding = 'utf-16le'
            data = data[2:]
        elif data[:3] == '\xef\xbb\xbf':
            encoding = 'utf-8'
            data = data[3:]
        elif data[:4] == '\x00\x00\xfe\xff':
            encoding = 'utf-32be'
            data = data[4:]
        elif data[:4] == '\xff\xfe\x00\x00':
            encoding = 'utf-32le'
            data = data[4:]
        newdata = unicode(data, encoding)
        return newdata
def _toUnicode(self, data, encoding):
        '''Given a string and its encoding, decodes the string into Unicode.
        %encoding is a string recognized by encodings.aliases'''

        # strip Byte Order Mark (if present)
        if (len(data) >= 4) and (data[:2] == '\xfe\xff') \
               and (data[2:4] != '\x00\x00'):
            encoding = 'utf-16be'
            data = data[2:]
        elif (len(data) >= 4) and (data[:2] == '\xff\xfe') \
                 and (data[2:4] != '\x00\x00'):
            encoding = 'utf-16le'
            data = data[2:]
        elif data[:3] == '\xef\xbb\xbf':
            encoding = 'utf-8'
            data = data[3:]
        elif data[:4] == '\x00\x00\xfe\xff':
            encoding = 'utf-32be'
            data = data[4:]
        elif data[:4] == '\xff\xfe\x00\x00':
            encoding = 'utf-32le'
            data = data[4:]
        newdata = unicode(data, encoding)
        return newdata
Given a string and its encoding, decodes the string into Unicode.
        %encoding is a string recognized by encodings.aliases