charlockholmes 0.0.2

Character encoding detecting library for Python using ICU and libmagic.

# Charlock Holmes [](https://travis-ci.org/xtao/PyCharlockHolmes)

Character encoding detecting library for Python using [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/) and libmagic. Inspired by [Charlock Holmes](https://raw.github.com/brianmario/charlock_holmes)

## Dependency 1. icu 2. file(libmagic)

### Gentoo

emerge -av dev-libs/icu emerge -av sys-apps/file

### Ubuntu

apt-get install libicu-dev apt-get install libmagic-dev

### Brew

brew install icu4c brew install libmagic export ICUI18N=”/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/xx” # Replace “xx” as the version of your icu export MAGIC=”/usr/local/Cellar/libmagic/xx” # Replace “xx” as the version of your libmagic

## Install

python setup build python setup install

## Usage

from charlockholmes import detect file = open(‘test.txt’) content = file.read() print detect(content)