uchardet ☆

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Description:
Encoding detector library

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: encoding detection library unicode text-processing

Install: brew install uchardet

About:
uchardet is a C library and command-line tool for detecting the encoding of text files. It is a C++ port of the universal charset detection algorithms originally developed by Mozilla for Firefox. This tool reliably identifies character encodings such as UTF-8, ISO-8859 series, and various Windows code pages.

Key Features:

Mozilla's universal charset detection algorithms
Support for a wide range of international encodings
Lightweight C++ library with a simple command-line interface

Use Cases:

Automating the import of legacy text files with unknown encodings
Building applications that need to handle user-provided text data

Alternatives:

chardet – uchardet is a C++ port optimized for performance, whereas the original chardet is Python-based.
file – The standard 'file' command provides basic encoding hints but uchardet offers more specialized detection.

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