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Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector |
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Detects |
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- ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants) |
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- Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese) |
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- EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese) |
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- EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR, Johab (Korean) |
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- KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic) |
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- ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian) |
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- ISO-8859-1, windows-1252, MacRoman (Western European languages) |
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- ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek) |
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- ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew) |
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- TIS-620 (Thai) |
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.. note:: |
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Our ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian) probers have been temporarily |
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disabled until we can retrain the models. |
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Requires Python 3.7+. |
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Installation |
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Install from `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/chardet/>`_:: |
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pip install chardet |
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Documentation |
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For users, docs are now available at https://chardet.readthedocs.io/. |
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Command-line Tool |
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chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one |
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or more files:: |
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% chardetect somefile someotherfile |
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somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5 |
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someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0 |
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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 |
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`charade <https://github.com/sigmavirus24/charade>`_ Python 3-compatible fork. |
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:maintainer: Dan Blanchard |
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