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Chardet

Python Universal Character Encoding Detector

Chardet is a Python port of the C++ universal character encoding detector from Mozilla.

Installation

Chardet is available on PyPI and can be installed via pip:

pip install chardet

Authors and Contributors

Chardet was originally ported from C++ by Mark Pilgrim (@diveintomark). It is now maintained by Dan Blanchard (@dan-blanchard) and Ian Cordasco (@sigmavirus24), and was formerly maintained by Erik Rose (@erikrose).

Documentation

We are currently working on updating our documentation, but an old (and still mostly correct) version of the documentation last updated by Mark Pilgrim is available here.