cChardet

cChardet is high speed universal character encoding detector. - binding to uchardet.

Supported Languages/Encodings

• International (Unicode)
  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE
  • UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121 / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431
• Arabic
  • ISO-8859-6
  • WINDOWS-1256
• Bulgarian
  • ISO-8859-5
  • WINDOWS-1251
• Chinese
  • ISO-2022-CN
  • BIG5
  • EUC-TW
  • GB18030
  • HZ-GB-2312
• Croatian:
  • ISO-8859-2
  • ISO-8859-13
  • ISO-8859-16
  • Windows-1250
  • IBM852
  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
• Czech
  • Windows-1250
  • ISO-8859-2
  • IBM852
  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
• Danish
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-15
  • WINDOWS-1252
• English
  • ASCII
• Esperanto
  • ISO-8859-3
• Estonian
  • ISO-8859-4
  • ISO-8859-13
  • ISO-8859-13
  • Windows-1252
  • Windows-1257
• Finnish
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-4
  • ISO-8859-9
  • ISO-8859-13
  • ISO-8859-15
  • WINDOWS-1252
• French
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-15
  • WINDOWS-1252
• German
  • ISO-8859-1
  • WINDOWS-1252
• Greek
  • ISO-8859-7
  • WINDOWS-1253
• Hebrew
  • ISO-8859-8
  • WINDOWS-1255
• Hungarian:
  • ISO-8859-2
  • WINDOWS-1250
• Irish Gaelic
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-9
  • ISO-8859-15
  • WINDOWS-1252
• Italian
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-3
  • ISO-8859-9
  • ISO-8859-15
  • WINDOWS-1252
• Japanese
  • ISO-2022-JP
  • SHIFT_JIS
  • EUC-JP
• Korean
  • ISO-2022-KR
  • EUC-KR / UHC
• Lithuanian
  • ISO-8859-4
  • ISO-8859-10
  • ISO-8859-13
• Latvian
  • ISO-8859-4
  • ISO-8859-10
  • ISO-8859-13
• Maltese
  • ISO-8859-3
• Polish:
  • ISO-8859-2
  • ISO-8859-13
  • ISO-8859-16
  • Windows-1250
  • IBM852
  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
• Portuguese
  • ISO-8859-1
  • ISO-8859-9
  • ISO-8859-15
  • WINDOWS-1252
• Romanian:
  • ISO-8859-2
  • ISO-8859-16
  • Windows-1250
  • IBM852
• Russian
  • ISO-8859-5
  • KOI8-R
  • WINDOWS-1251
  • MAC-CYRILLIC
  • IBM866
  • IBM855
• Slovak
  • Windows-1250
  • ISO-8859-2
  • IBM852
  • MAC-CENTRALEUROPE
• Slovene
  • ISO-8859-2
  • ISO-8859-16
  • Windows-1250
  • IBM852
  • M

Example

import cchardet as chardet
with open(r"tests/samples/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt", "rb") as f:
  msg = f.read()
  result = chardet.detect(msg)
  print(result)

Benchmark

$ python setup.py build_ext -i -f
$ python tests/bench.py

Results

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

RAM: DDR5-5600MT/s 96GB

Platform: Ubuntu 24.04 amd64

Python 3.12.3

	Request (call/s)
chardet v5.2.0	1.1
cchardet v2.2.0a1	2263.6

LICENSE

See COPYING file.

Contact

• Issues

Support Platforms

• Windows i686, x86_64
• Linux i686, x86_64
• macOS x86_64