chardet

Character encoding auto-detection in Python. As smart as your browser. Open source.

Documentation

• Frequently asked questions
  • What is character encoding?
  • What is character encoding auto-detection?
  • Isn’t that impossible?
  • Who wrote this detection algorithm?
  • Yippie! Screw the standards, I’ll just auto-detect everything!
  • Why bother with auto-detection if it’s slow, inaccurate, and non-standard?
• Supported encodings
• Usage
  • Basic usage
  • Example: Using the detect function
  • Advanced usage
  • Example: Detecting encoding incrementally
  • Example: Detecting encodings of multiple files
• How it works
  • UTF-n with a BOM
  • Escaped encodings
  • Multi-byte encodings
  • Single-byte encodings
  • windows-1252
• chardet
  • chardet package

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page