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Detect character set for files, streams and other bytes.

Detection of character sets with a simple and redesigned interface.

This package is based on Ude and since version 2 also on uchardet, which are ports of the Mozilla Universal Charset Detector.

The interface and other classes has been resigned so it's easier to use and better object oriented design (OOD). Unit tests and CI has been added.

Features:

• New API
• Moved to .NET Standard
• Added more unit tests
• Builds on CI (AppVeyor)
• Strong named
• Documentation added
• Multiple bugs from Ude fixed

Supported Platforms

• .NET 5+
• .NET Standard 1.0+
• .NET Core 3.0+
• .NET Framework 4.0+

Remarks: You can still register your EncodingProvider so that the Encoding.GetEncoding(...) method first tries to find in it.

Usage

Use the static detectX methods from CharsetDetector.

// Detect from File (NET standard 1.3+ or .NET 4+)
DetectionResult result = CharsetDetector.DetectFromFile("path/to/file.txt"); // or pass FileInfo

// Detect from Stream (NET standard 1.3+ or .NET 4+)
result = CharsetDetector.DetectFromStream(stream);

// Detect from bytes
results = CharsetDetector.DetectFromBytes(byteArray);

// Get the best Detection
DetectionDetail resultDetected = results.Detected;

// Get the alias of the found encoding
string encodingName = resultDetected.EncodingName;

// Get the System.Text.Encoding of the found encoding (can be null if not available)
Encoding encoding = resultDetected.Encoding;

// Get the confidence of the found encoding (between 0 and 1)
float confidence = resultDetected.Confidence;

// Get all the details of the result
IList<DetectionDetail> allDetails = result.Details;

Docs

The article "A composite approach to language/encoding detection" describes the charsets detection algorithms implemented by the library.

The following charsets are supported

Encodings with BOM: utf-7, utf-8, utf-16be/utf-16le, utf-32be/utf-32le, X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121/X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431, gb18030.

Encodings without BOM are presented in the table, separated by languages:

Language	Encodings
International (Unicode)	utf-8
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, x-mac-ce
Czech	windows-1250, iso-8859-2, ibm852, x-mac-ce
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, cp949
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, x-mac-ce
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, x-mac-cyrillic, ibm855, ibm866
Slovak	windows-1250, iso-8859-2, ibm852, x-mac-ce
Slovene	iso-8859-2, iso-8859-16, windows-1250, ibm852, x-mac-ce
Spanish	iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, windows-1252
Swedish	iso-8859-1, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-15, windows-1252
Thai	tis-620, iso-8859-11
Turkish	iso-8859-3, iso-8859-9
Vietnamese	viscii, windows-1258
Others	windows-1252

Remarks: For some aliases of encoding not available: cp949, iso-2022-cn, euc-tw, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-16, viscii, X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121/X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431. Some of them have been offered a suitable replacement for the return result by DetectionDetail.Encoding:

• cp949: use ks_c_5601-1987
• iso-2022-cn: use x-cp50227

License

The library is subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 (the "License"). Alternatively, it may be used under the terms of either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL").

Test data has been extracted from Wikipedia and The Project Gutenberg books and is subject to their licenses.