Skip to main content

Character encoding auto-detection in Python 3

Project description

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 3 or later

Commandline interface

chardet2 <filename>

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page