CHARDET(1)
β¨ CHARDET(1) β User Commands β¨
Okay so the manual name is User Commands, and this page is all about chardet, the universal character encoding detector ππ
πΈ NAME πΈ
chardet β universal character encoding detector π¦
π SYNOPSIS π
chardet [file ...]π DESCRIPTION π
Bestie, this one is lowkey iconic. chardet heuristically detects the character encoding of text, so it reports what it thinks each file is encoded in β¨
For every file you specify, it reads the content and figures out the encoding. If you don't give it any files, it reads from stdin instead π«Ά For each file, you get back the name of the detected encoding plus a confidence level, so you know how sure it is π
π§ SEE ALSO π§
/usr/share/doc/python-chardet-doc/index.html
π AUTHOR π
The chardet module was written by Mark Pilgrim <mark@diveintomark.org> π
This manual page was written by Piotr OΕΌarowski <piotr@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others) π
Ily, and stay gorgeous. chardet 2.2.1 Β· December 2013 Β· CHARDET(1) ππ¦β¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: python3-chardet 5.1.0+dfsg-2 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- debian trixie: python3-chardet 5.2.0+dfsg-2 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: python3-chardet 4.0.0-1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- ubuntu noble: python3-chardet 5.2.0+dfsg-1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- ubuntu questing: python3-chardet 5.2.0+dfsg-2 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: python3-chardet 5.2.0+dfsg-2build1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: python3-chardet 5.2.0+dfsg-2build1 Β· LGPL-2.1-or-later
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