Universal encoding detector for Python 3
Project description
Chardet: The 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, 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)
Requires Python 3.7+.
Installation
Install from PyPI:
pip install chardet
Documentation
For users, docs are now available at https://chardet.readthedocs.io/.
Command-line Tool
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
This is a continuation of Mark Pilgrim’s excellent original chardet port from C, and Ian Cordasco’s charade Python 3-compatible fork.
- maintainer:
Dan Blanchard
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