HTML Mixed Encodings?

First I would like to say thank you for the help in advance.

I am currently w开发者_如何学Pythonriting a web crawler that parses HTML content, strips HTML tags, and then spell checks the text which is retrieved from the parsing.

Stripping HTML tags and spell checking has not caused any problems, using JSoup and Google Spell Check API.

I am able to pull down content from a URL and passing this information into a byte[] and then ultimately a String so that it can be stripped and spell checked. I am running into a problem with character encoding.

For example when parsing http://www.testwareinc.com/...

Original Text: We’ve expanded our Mobile Web and Mobile App testing services.

... the page is using ISO-8859-1 according to meta tag...

ISO-8859-1 Parse: Weve expanded our Mobile Web and Mobile App testing services.

... then trying using UTF-8...

UTF-8 Parse: We�ve expanded our Mobile Web and Mobile App testing services.

Question Is it possible that HTML of a webpage can include a mix of encodings? And how can that be detected?

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It looks like the apostrophe is coded as a 0x92 byte, which according to Wikipedia is an unassigned/private code point.

From there on, it looks like the browser falls back by assuming it's a non-encoded 1-byte Unicode code point : +0092 (Private Use Two) which appears to be represented as an apostrophe. No wait, if it's one byte, it's more probably cp1252: Browsers must have a fallback strategy according to the advertised CP, such as ISO-8859-1 -> CP1252.

So no mix of encoding here but as others said a broken document. But with a fallback heuristic that will sometimes help, sometimes not.

If you're curious enough, you may want to dive into FF or Chrome's source code to see exactly what they do in such a case.

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Having more than 1 encoding in a document isn't a mixed document, it is a broken document.

Unfortunately there are a lot of web pages that use an encoding that doesn't match the document definition, or contains some data that is valid in the given encoding and some content that is invalid.

There is no good way to handle this. It is possible to try and guess the encoding of a document, but it is difficult and not 100% reliable. In cases like yours, the simplest solution is just to ignore parts of the document that can't be decoded.

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Apache Tika has an encoding detector. There are also commercial alternatives if you need, say, something in C++ and are in a position to spend money.

I can pretty much guarantee that each web page is in one encoding, but it's easy to be mistaken about which one.

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seems like issue with special characters. Check this StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml if it helps. or any method there

edited: added this logic as he was not able to get code working

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
        String asd = "’";
        System.out.println(StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(asd)); //output - ’
    System.out.println(StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(asd)); //output - ’
}