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

Install from PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet>_::

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 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