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uchardet

brew install uchardet v0.0.8 MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-2.1-or-later

C library and command-line tool that detects character encoding in text files and streams.

Why you might care

Automatically identifies the encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, various CJK encodings, etc.) of text without user hints, useful in build pipelines that process files of unknown origin. Used as a dependency by other tools that need robust encoding detection; the CLI tool is handy for batch-processing legacy text files.

Categories

library text-processor encoding-detection

Alternatives

iconv file chardet
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30-day installs · #848
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90-day · #1025
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365-day · #1177

Build dependencies

cmake

Links

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