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, Johab (Korean)

- KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)

- ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)

- ISO-8859-1, windows-1252, MacRoman (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 3.7+.

Installation

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Install from `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/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 original chardet port from C, and `Ian Cordasco <https://github.com/sigmavirus24>`_'s

`charade <https://github.com/sigmavirus24/charade>`_ Python 3-compatible fork.

:maintainer: Dan Blanchard