Supported Languages/Encodings

• International (Unicode)

  • UTF-8

  • UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE

  • UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121 / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431

• Arabic

  • ISO-8859-6

  • WINDOWS-1256

• Bulgarian

  • ISO-8859-5

  • WINDOWS-1251

• Chinese

  • ISO-2022-CN

  • BIG5

  • EUC-TW

  • GB18030

  • HZ-GB-2312

• Croatian:

  • ISO-8859-2

  • ISO-8859-13

  • ISO-8859-16

  • Windows-1250

  • IBM852

  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE

• Czech

  • Windows-1250

  • ISO-8859-2

  • IBM852

  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE

• Danish

  • ISO-8859-1

  • ISO-8859-15

  • WINDOWS-1252

• English

  • ASCII

• Esperanto

  • ISO-8859-3

• Estonian

  • ISO-8859-4

  • ISO-8859-13

  • ISO-8859-13

  • Windows-1252

  • Windows-1257

• Finnish

  • ISO-8859-1

  • ISO-8859-4

  • ISO-8859-9

  • ISO-8859-13

  • ISO-8859-15

  • WINDOWS-1252

• French

  • ISO-8859-1

  • ISO-8859-15

  • WINDOWS-1252

• German

  • ISO-8859-1

  • WINDOWS-1252

• Greek

  • ISO-8859-7

  • WINDOWS-1253

• Hebrew

  • ISO-8859-8

  • WINDOWS-1255

• Hungarian:

  • ISO-8859-2

  • WINDOWS-1250

• Irish Gaelic

  • ISO-8859-1

  • ISO-8859-9

  • ISO-8859-15

  • WINDOWS-1252

• Italian

  • ISO-8859-1

  • ISO-8859-3

  • ISO-8859-9

  • ISO-8859-15

  • WINDOWS-1252

• Japanese

  • ISO-2022-JP

  • SHIFT_JIS

  • EUC-JP

• Korean

  • ISO-2022-KR

  • EUC-KR / UHC

• Lithuanian

  • ISO-8859-4

  • ISO-8859-10

  • ISO-8859-13

• Latvian

  • ISO-8859-4

  • ISO-8859-10

  • ISO-8859-13

• Maltese

  • ISO-8859-3

• Polish:

  • ISO-8859-2

  • ISO-8859-13

  • ISO-8859-16

  • Windows-1250

  • IBM852

  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE

• Portuguese

  • ISO-8859-1

  • ISO-8859-9

  • ISO-8859-15

  • WINDOWS-1252

• Romanian:

  • ISO-8859-2

  • ISO-8859-16

  • Windows-1250

  • IBM852

• Russian

  • ISO-8859-5

  • KOI8-R

  • WINDOWS-1251

  • MAC-CYRILLIC

  • IBM866

  • IBM855

• Slovak

  • Windows-1250

  • ISO-8859-2

  • IBM852

  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE

• Slovene

  • ISO-8859-2

  • ISO-8859-16

  • Windows-1250

  • IBM852

  • M

Example

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import cchardet as chardet
with open(r"src/tests/samples/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt", "rb") as f:
    msg = f.read()
    result = chardet.detect(msg)
    print(result)

Benchmark

$ cd src/
$ pip install chardet
$ python tests/bench.py

LICENSE

See COPYING file.

Contact

• Issues

Platform

2.x.x

2.1.7 (2020-10-27)

• support Python 3.9

• drop support for Python 3.5

2.1.6 (2020-03-17)

• drop support for Python 2.7

• support Github Actions

• update dev-dependencies

2.1.5 (2019-09-27)

• update language models (uchardet)

• add iso8859-2 test but disabled it

• support Python 3.8

• drop support for Python 3.4

2.1.4 (2018-09-27)

• disable LTO because become poor performance

2.1.3 (2018-09-26)

• support Python 3.7

2.1.2 (2018-09-26)

• enable LTO for wheel builds

• update Cython

2.1.1 (2017-07-01)

• fix that different results with different chuck sizes

• fix that assignments to nsSMState in nsCodingStateMachine result in unspecified behavior

• include COPYING in package

2.1.0 (2017-05-15)

• add cchardetect CLI script (#30) @craigds

2.0.1 (2017-04-25)

• fix an issue where UTF-8 with a BOM would not be detected as UTF-8-SIG (fix #28)

• pass NULL Byte to feed() / detect() (fix #27)

2.0.0 (2017-04-06)

• Improve tests

2.0a4 (2017-04-05)

• Update uchardet repo (Fix buffer overflow)

2.0a3 (2017-03-29)

• Implement UniversalDetector (like chardet)

2.0a2 (2017-03-28)

• Update uchardet repo (Fix memory leak)

2.0a1 (2017-03-28)

• Replace uchardet-enhanced to uchardet

• Remove Detector class

1.1.3 (2017-02-26)

• Support AArch64

1.1.2 (2017-01-08)

• Support Python 3.6

1.1.1 (2016-11-05)

• Use len() function (9e61cb9e96b138b0d18e5f9e013e144202ae4067)

• Remove detect function in _cchardet.pyx (25b581294fc0ae8f686ac9972c8549666766f695)

• Support manylinux1 wheel

1.1.0 (2016-10-17)

• Add Detector class

• Improve unit tests