Chardet takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding, and attempts to determine the encoding.

Supported encodings: * 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, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese) * EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean) * KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic) * ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian) * ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian) * windows-1252 (English) * ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek) * ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew) * TIS-620 (Thai)

This library is a port of the auto-detection code in Mozilla.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.