Universal encoding detector
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Author: Mark Pilgrim
Classifiers
chardet guesses the encoding of text files.
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, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian)
ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
windows-1252 (English)
ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
TIS-620 (Thai)
Requires Python 2.1 or later.
Command-line Tool
chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one or more files:
% chardetect.py somefile someotherfile somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5 someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0
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