uchardet is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla.

uchardet is an encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.

The original code of universalchardet is available at http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/universalchardet/

Techniques used by universalchardet are described at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/UniversalCharsetDetection.html

Supported Encodings

• Unicode
  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE
  • UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121 / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431
• Chinese
  • ISO-2022-CN
  • BIG5
  • EUC-TW
  • GB18030
  • HZ-GB-23121
• Japanese
  • ISO-2022-JP
  • SHIFT_JIS
  • EUC-JP
• Korean
  • ISO-2022-KR
  • EUC-KR
• Cyrillic
  • ISO-8859-5
  • KOI8-R
  • WINDOWS-1251
  • MACCYRILLIC
  • IBM866
  • IBM855
• Greek
  • ISO-8859-7
  • WINDOWS-1253
• Hebrew
  • ISO-8859-8
  • WINDOWS-1255
• Others
  • WINDOWS-1252

Installation

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get install uchardet libuchardet-dev

Mac

brew install uchardet

Build from source

cmake .
make
make install

Usage

Command Line

uchardet Command Line Tool
Version 0.0.1

Author: BYVoid
Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/uchardet/issues/entry

Usage:
 uchardet [Options] [File]

Options:
 -v, --version         Print version and build information.
 -h, --help            Print this help.

Library

See uchardet.h

Related Projects

• python-chardet Python port
• ruby-rchardet Ruby port
• juniversalchardet Java port of universalchardet
• jchardet Java port of chardet
• nuniversalchardet C# port of universalchardet
• nchardet C# port of chardet
• uchardet-enhanced A fork of mozilla universalchardet

License

Mozilla Public License Version 1.1