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)

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Our ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian) probers have been temporarily disabled until we can retrain the models. ::::

Requires Python 3.8+.

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