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I am working in a job and I need to parse a site with Beautiful Soup. The site is <a href="http://www.manta.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.manta.com</a> but when I try to see the encoding of the site in the meta of the HTML code don't appears nothing. I'm try to parse the HTML locally , with the web page downloaded, but I'm having trouble with some decoding errors: <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code># manta web page downloaded before html = open('1.html', 'r') soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml') </code></pre> This produces the following stack trace: <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:/Projects/Python/webkit/sample.py", line 10, in <module> soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml') File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", line 172, in __init__ self._feed() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", line 185, in _feed self.builder.feed(self.markup) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_lxml.py", line 195, in feed self.parser.close() File "parser.pxi", line 1209, in lxml.etree._FeedParser.close(src\lxm\lxml.etree.c:90717) File "parsertarget.pxi", line 142, in lxml.etree._TargetParserContext._handleParseResult (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:100104) File "parsertarget.pxi", line 130, in lxml.etree._TargetParserContext._handleParseResult (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:99927) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 294, in lxml.etree._ExceptionContext._raise_if_stored (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:9387) File "saxparser.pxi", line 259, in lxml.etree._handleSaxData (src\lxml \lxml.etree.c:96065) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 105-106: invalid data </code></pre> I'm try to introduce the encoding in the constructor of Beautiful Soup : <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml', from_encoding= "some encoding") </code></pre> And I continue get the same error. The interesting thing is that if I load the page in my browser and then I change the encode to utf-8 for example in Firefox and the save it. This work good.Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you. 
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