cChardet
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.pyResults
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