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+# Determine the Encoding of a HTML Byte Stream
+
+This package implements the HTML Standard's [encoding sniffing algorithm](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#encoding-sniffing-algorithm) in all its glory. The most interesting part of this is how it pre-scans the first 1024 bytes in order to search for certain `<meta charset>`-related patterns.
+
+```js
+const htmlEncodingSniffer = require("html-encoding-sniffer");
+const fs = require("fs");
+
+const htmlBytes = fs.readFileSync("./html-page.html");
+const sniffedEncoding = htmlEncodingSniffer(htmlBytes);
+```
+
+The passed bytes are given as a `Uint8Array`; the Node.js `Buffer` subclass of `Uint8Array` will also work, as shown above.
+
+The returned value will be a canonical [encoding name](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels) (not a label). You might then combine this with the [`@exodus/bytes`](https://github.com/ExodusOSS/bytes/) package to decode the result:
+
+```js
+const { TextDecoder } = require("@exodus/bytes");
+const htmlString = (new TextDecoder(sniffedEncoding)).decode(htmlBytes);
+```
+
+## Options
+
+You can pass the following options to `htmlEncodingSniffer`:
+
+```js
+const sniffedEncoding = htmlEncodingSniffer(htmlBytes, {
+ xml,
+ transportLayerEncodingLabel,
+ defaultEncoding,
+});
+```
+
+The `xml` option is a boolean, defaulting to `false`. If set to `true`, then we bypass the [HTML encoding sniffing algorithm](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#encoding-sniffing-algorithm) and compute the encoding based on the presence of a BOM, or the other options provided. (In the future, we may perform sniffing of the `<?xml?>` declaration, but for now that is not implemented.)
+
+The `transportLayerEncodingLabel` is an encoding label that is obtained from the "transport layer" (probably a HTTP `Content-Type` header), which overrides everything but a BOM.
+
+The `defaultEncoding` is the ultimate fallback encoding used if no valid encoding is supplied by the transport layer, and no encoding is sniffed from the bytes. For HTML, it defaults to `"windows-1252"`, as recommended by the algorithm's table of suggested defaults for "All other locales" (including the `en` locale). For XML, it defaults to `"UTF-8"`.
+
+## Credits
+
+This package was originally based on the excellent work of [@nicolashenry](https://github.com/nicolashenry), [in jsdom](https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/blob/16fd85618f2705d181232f6552125872a37164bc/lib/jsdom/living/helpers/encoding.js). It has since been pulled out into this separate package.