JsChardet

Port of python's chardet (http://chardet.feedparser.org/).

License

LGPL

How To Use It

npm install jschardet

var jschardet = require("jschardet")

// "àíàçã" in UTF-8
jschardet.detect("\xc3\xa0\xc3\xad\xc3\xa0\xc3\xa7\xc3\xa3")
// { encoding: "utf-8", confidence: 0.9690625 }

// "次常用國字標準字體表" in Big5 
jschardet.detect("\xa6\xb8\xb1\x60\xa5\xce\xb0\xea\xa6\x72\xbc\xd0\xb7\xc7\xa6\x72\xc5\xe9\xaa\xed")
// { encoding: "Big5", confidence: 0.99 }

Supported Charsets

• Big5, GB2312/GB18030, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, and ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese)
• EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, and ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
• EUC-KR and ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
• KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, and windows-1251 (Russian)
• ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian)
• ISO-8859-5 and windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
• windows-1252
• ISO-8859-7 and windows-1253 (Greek)
• ISO-8859-8 and windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
• TIS-620 (Thai)
• UTF-32 BE, LE, 3412-ordered, or 2143-ordered (with a BOM)
• UTF-16 BE or LE (with a BOM)
• UTF-8 (with or without a BOM)
• ASCII

Technical Information

I haven't been able to create tests to correctly detect:

• ISO-2022-CN
• windows-1250 in Hungarian
• windows-1251 in Bulgarian
• windows-1253 in Greek
• EUC-CN

A one-file minimized version is missing.

Authors

Ported from python to JavaScript by António Afonso (https://github.com/aadsm/jschardet) Transformed into an npm package by Markus Ast (https://github.com/brainafk)