chardet
Universal character encoding detector
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Description
Chardet is a character encoding detector for Python. It supports a wide range of encodings, including ASCII, UTF variants, various East Asian encodings (EUC, ISO-2022, Shift_JIS), and many others. Chardet uses statistical models and heuristics to guess the most likely encoding.
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Summary
Universal character encoding detector
Last Updated
Aug 18, 2025 at 14:25
License
LGPL-2.1-or-later
Total Downloads
1.1M
Version Downloads
6.6K
Supported Platforms
macOS-arm64
linux-64
linux-aarch64
win-64
Unsupported Platforms
linux-ppc64le Last supported version: 4.0.0
win-32 Last supported version: 4.0.0
linux-s390x Last supported version: 4.0.0
macOS-64 Last supported version: 4.0.0
linux-32 Last supported version: 3.0.4
GitHub Repository
https://github.com/chardet/chardetDocumentation
https://chardet.readthedocs.io