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Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: chardet
Version: 5.2.0
Summary: Universal encoding detector for Python 3
Home-page: https://github.com/chardet/chardet
Author: Mark Pilgrim
Author-email: mark@diveintomark.org
Maintainer: Daniel Blanchard
Maintainer-email: dan.blanchard@gmail.com
License: LGPL
Project-URL: Documentation, https://chardet.readthedocs.io/
Project-URL: GitHub Project, https://github.com/chardet/chardet
Project-URL: Issue Tracker, https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues
Keywords: encoding,i18n,xml
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v2 or later (LGPLv2+)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic
Requires-Python: >=3.7
License-File: LICENSE

Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector
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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, CP932, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
 - EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR, Johab (Korean)
 - KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
 - ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
 - ISO-8859-1, windows-1252, MacRoman (Western European languages)
 - ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
 - ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
 - TIS-620 (Thai)

.. note::
   Our ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian) probers have been temporarily
   disabled until we can retrain the models.

Requires Python 3.7+.

Installation
------------

Install from `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/chardet/>`_::

    pip install chardet

Documentation
-------------

For users, docs are now available at https://chardet.readthedocs.io/.

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 original chardet port from C, and `Ian Cordasco <https://github.com/sigmavirus24>`_'s
`charade <https://github.com/sigmavirus24/charade>`_ Python 3-compatible fork.

:maintainer: Dan Blanchard