chardet(1)

chardet1

Universal character encoding detector

Usage

chardet [file ...]

Overview

Report heuristically-detected character encoding for each file.

For every specified file (defaulting to stdin if no files are specified), reads and determines the character encoding of the file content. Reports the name and confidence level for each file's detected character encoding.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0–7
  2. 8–13

--help until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -h until Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Author

chardet module was written by Mark Pilgrim <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Piotr Ożarowski <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From python3-chardet 5.2.0+dfsg-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.