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Ken Krugler commented on TIKA-539: ---------------------------------- I've spent a bit more time on this, exploring why the wrong charset was being returned for an HTML page I've got. Given what I know about the HTML5 spec.and Reinhard's proposal above, I think the appropriate process is: 1. Extract encoding from content-type, content-encoding, and meta tags. Each may or may not exist. 2. Normalize (resolve aliases, etc) each charset name that was found. 3. If all normalized charset names are in agreement, or are subsets (e.g. one is us-ascii, one is ISO-8859-1) then use the "highest" (most inclusive) encoding. 4. If no normalized charset names are found, or there is disagreement, use the statistical charset detection code. A similar approach (excluding meta tags) should be used by the TXTParser. > Encoding detection is too biased by encoding in meta tag > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-539 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-539 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.8 > Reporter: Reinhard Schwab > Assignee: Ken Krugler > Fix For: 0.9 > > Attachments: TIKA-539.patch, TIKA-539_2.patch > > > if the encoding in the meta tag is wrong, this encoding is detected, > even if there is the right encoding set in metadata before(which can be from > http response header). > test code to reproduce: > static String content = "<html><head>\n" > + "<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" > content=\"application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1\" />" > + "</head><body>Über den Wolken\n</body></html>"; > /** > * @param args > * @throws IOException > * @throws TikaException > * @throws SAXException > */ > public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, SAXException, > TikaException { > Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); > metadata.set(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html"); > metadata.set(Metadata.CONTENT_ENCODING, "UTF-8"); > System.out.println(metadata.get(Metadata.CONTENT_ENCODING)); > InputStream in = new > ByteArrayInputStream(content.getBytes("UTF-8")); > AutoDetectParser parser = new AutoDetectParser(); > BodyContentHandler h = new BodyContentHandler(10000); > parser.parse(in, h, metadata, new ParseContext()); > System.out.print(h.toString()); > System.out.println(metadata.get(Metadata.CONTENT_ENCODING)); > } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.