import re
import chardet
import sys


RE_CHARSET = re.compile(br'<meta.*?charset=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
RE_PRAGMA = re.compile(br'<meta.*?content=["\']*;?charset=(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
RE_XML = re.compile(br'^<\?xml.*?encoding=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]')

CHARSETS = {
    'big5': 'big5hkscs',
    'gb2312': 'gb18030',
    'ascii': 'utf-8',
    'maccyrillic': 'cp1251',
    'win1251': 'cp1251',
    'win-1251': 'cp1251',
    'windows-1251': 'cp1251',
}

def 
(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()
    return CHARSETS.get(encoding, encoding)


def get_encoding(page):
    # Regex for XML and HTML Meta charset declaration
    declared_encodings = (RE_CHARSET.findall(page) +
            RE_PRAGMA.findall(page) +
            RE_XML.findall(page))

    # Try any declared encodings
    for declared_encoding in declared_encodings:
        try:
            if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
                # declared_encoding will actually be bytes but .decode() only
                # accepts `str` type. Decode blindly with ascii because no one should
                # ever use non-ascii characters in the name of an encoding.
                declared_encoding = declared_encoding.decode('ascii', 'replace')

            encoding = fix_charset(declared_encoding)

            # Now let's decode the page
            page.decode()
            # It worked!
            return encoding
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            pass

    # Fallback to chardet if declared encodings fail
    # Remove all HTML tags, and leave only text for chardet
    text = re.sub(b'(\s*</?[^>]*>)+\s*', b' ', page).strip()
    enc = 'utf-8'
    if len(text) < 10:
        return enc # can't guess
    res = chardet.detect(text)
    enc = res['encoding'] or 'utf-8'
    #print '->', enc, "%.2f" % res['confidence']
    enc = fix_charset(enc)
    return enc

fix_charset