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Diffstat (limited to 'bs4/__init__.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | bs4/__init__.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bs4/__init__.py b/bs4/__init__.py index bc611c9..308428a 100644 --- a/bs4/__init__.py +++ b/bs4/__init__.py @@ -236,7 +236,16 @@ class BeautifulSoup(Tag): self.builder.soup = None def __copy__(self): - return type(self)(self.encode(), builder=self.builder) + copy = type(self)( + self.encode('utf-8'), builder=self.builder, from_encoding='utf-8' + ) + + # Although we encoded the tree to UTF-8, that may not have + # been the encoding of the original markup. Set the copy's + # .original_encoding to reflect the original object's + # .original_encoding. + copy.original_encoding = self.original_encoding + return copy def __getstate__(self): # Frequently a tree builder can't be pickled. |