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cChardet

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cChardet is high speed universal character encoding detector. - binding to uchardet.

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

import cchardet as chardet
with open(r"tests/samples/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt", "rb") as f:
  msg = f.read()
  result = chardet.detect(msg)
  print(result)

Benchmark

$ python setup.py build_ext -i -f
$ python tests/bench.py

Results

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

RAM: DDR5-5600MT/s 96GB

Platform: Ubuntu 24.04 amd64

Python 3.12.3

Request (call/s)
chardet v5.2.0 1.1
cchardet v2.2.0a1 2263.6

LICENSE

See COPYING file.

Contact

Support Platforms

  • Windows i686, x86_64
  • Linux i686, x86_64
  • macOS x86_64