python-chardet – universal character encoding detector for Python2¶
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Chardet takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding, and attempts to determine the encoding.
Supported encodings:
ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants)
Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese)
EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian)
ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
windows-1252 (English)
ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
TIS-620 (Thai)
This library is a port of the auto-detection code in Mozilla.
Distribution |
Base version |
Our version |
Architectures |
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Debian GNU/Linux 10.0 (buster) |
3.0.4-3 |
3.0.4-1~nd100+1 |
i386, amd64, sparc, armel, ppc64el |
Debian GNU/Linux 11.0 (bullseye) |
4.0.0-1 |
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Debian GNU/Linux 12.0 (bookworm) |
5.1.0+dfsg-2 |
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Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch) |
2.3.0-2 |
3.0.4-1~nd90+1 |
i386, amd64, sparc, armel |
Debian testing (trixie) |
5.2.0+dfsg-1 |
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Debian unstable (sid) |
5.2.0+dfsg-1 |
3.0.4-1~nd+1 |
i386, amd64, sparc, armel |
Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” (xenial) |
2.3.0-2 |
3.0.4-1~nd16.04+1 |
i386, amd64, sparc, armel |
Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” (bionic) |
3.0.4-1 |
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Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” (focal) |
3.0.4-4build1 |
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Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” (jammy) |
4.0.0-1 |
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Ubuntu 24.04 “Noble Numbat” (noble) |
5.2.0+dfsg-1 |