Metadata-Version: 2.0 Name: chardet Version: 2.2.1 Summary: Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3 Home-page: https://github.com/erikrose/chardet Author: Ian Cordasco Author-email: graffatcolmingov@gmail.com License: LGPL Keywords: encoding,i18n,xml Platform: UNKNOWN Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent Classifier: Programming Language :: Python Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector -------------------------------------------------- Detects - 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) Requires Python 2.6 or later Command-line Tool ----------------- chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one or more files:: % chardetect somefile someotherfile somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5 someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0 About ----- This is a continuation of Mark Pilgrim's excellent chardet. Previously, two versions needed to be maintained: one that supported python 2.x and one that supported python 3.x. We've recently merged with `Ian Corduscano `_'s `charade `_ fork, so now we have one coherent version that works for Python 2.6+. :maintainer: Dan Blanchard