Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector
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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, CP932, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
- EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
- KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
- ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
- ISO-8859-1, windows-1252 (Western European languages)
- ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
- ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
- TIS-620 (Thai)
.. note::
Our ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian) probers have been temporarily
disabled until we can retrain the models.
Requires Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+.
Installation
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Install from `PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet>`_::
pip install chardet
Documentation
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For users, docs are now available at https://chardet.readthedocs.io/.
Command-line Tool
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chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one
or more files::
% chardetect somefile someotherfile
somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5
someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0
About
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This is a continuation of Mark Pilgrim's excellent chardet. Previously, two
versions needed to be maintained: one that supported python 2.x and one that
supported python 3.x. We've recently merged with `Ian Cordasco <https://github.com/sigmavirus24>`_'s
`charade <https://github.com/sigmavirus24/charade>`_ fork, so now we have one
coherent version that works for Python 2.6+.
:maintainer: Dan Blanchard
