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chardet

Detect character encoding in text files automatically

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Python character encoding detector

Commands

chardet

Examples

Detect encoding of a single file$ chardet myfile.txt
Detect encoding of multiple files$ chardet file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
Detect encoding of all files in a directory$ chardet /path/to/directory/*