uchardet

universal charset detection library - cli utility

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 cli detection utility.