chardet 6.0.0

Universal encoding detector for Python 3

Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector

Detects over 70 character encodings including:

• All major Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32)

• Windows code pages (Windows-1250 through Windows-1258)

• ISO-8859 family (ISO-8859-1 through ISO-8859-16)

• CJK encodings (Big5, GB18030, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, Shift-JIS, and more)

• Cyrillic encodings (KOI8-R, KOI8-U, IBM866, and more)

• Mac encodings (MacRoman, MacCyrillic, and more)

• DOS/OEM code pages (CP437, CP850, CP866, and more)

• EBCDIC variants (CP037, CP500)

See the full list of supported encodings.

Requires Python 3.10+.

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