chardet Universal encoding detector
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Python library Python encoding Detector

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chardet is an 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, 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)Command-line Toolchardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one or more files:% chardetect.py somefile someotherfilesomefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0Product's homepage

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