cchardet 2.0a2

cChardet is high speed universal character encoding detector.

cChardet

Work In Progress Branch

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

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import cchardet as chardet
with open(r"src/tests/samples/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt", "rb") as f:
    msg = f.read()
    result = chardet.detect(msg)
    print(result)

Benchmark

$ cd src/
$ pip install chardet
$ python tests/bench.py

Results

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz

RAM: DDR3 1600Mhz 16GB

Platform: Ubuntu 16.04 amd64

Python 2.7.12

	Request (call/s)
chardet	0.26
cchardet	1341.81

Python 3.6.0

	Request (call/s)
chardet	0.26
cchardet	1472.43

LICENSE

See COPYING file.

Contact

• Issues

CHANGES

2.0a2 (2017-03-28)

• Update uchardet repo (Fix memory leak)

2.0a1 (2017-03-28)

• Replace uchardet-enhanced to uchardet

• Remove Detector class

1.1.3 (2017-02-26)

• Support AArch64

1.1.2 (2017-01-08)

• Support Python 3.6

1.1.1 (2016-11-05)

• Use len() function (9e61cb9e96b138b0d18e5f9e013e144202ae4067)

• Remove detect function in _cchardet.pyx (25b581294fc0ae8f686ac9972c8549666766f695)

• Support manylinux1 wheel

1.1.0 (2016-10-17)

• Add Detector class

• Improve unit tests