Uchardet is a c language binding of the original c++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by mozilla.

uchardet is a 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

this package contains the shared library.