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python-chardet


Universal encoding detector


Development/Languages/Python

Universal character encoding detector

Detects

  • ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants)
  • Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese)
  • EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
  • EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
  • KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
  • ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian)
  • ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
  • windows-1252 (English)
  • ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
  • ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
  • TIS-620 (Thai)

Requires Python 2.1 or later

Command-line Tool

chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one or more files::

% chardetect.py somefile someotherfile
somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5
someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0

License: LGPL-2.1+
URL: https://github.com/chardet/chardet

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Releases

Package Version Update ID Released Package Hub Version Platforms Subpackages
3.0.4-bp152.2.16 info GA Release 2020-04-17 15 SP2