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align=\"center\"\u003eCharset Detection, for Everyone πŸ‘‹\u003c/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n \u003csup\u003eThe Real First Universal Charset Detector\u003c/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://pypi.org/project/charset-normalizer\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/charset_normalizer.svg?orange=blue\" /\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://pepy.tech/project/charset-normalizer/\"\u003e\n \u003cimg alt=\"Download Count Total\" src=\"https://static.pepy.tech/badge/charset-normalizer/month\" /\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/7297\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/7297/badge\"\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n \u003csup\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeatured Packages\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jawah/niquests\"\u003e\n \u003cimg alt=\"Static Badge\" src=\"https://img.shields.io/badge/Niquests-Most_Advanced_HTTP_Client-cyan\"\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/jawah/wassima\"\u003e\n \u003cimg alt=\"Static Badge\" src=\"https://img.shields.io/badge/Wassima-Certifi_Replacement-cyan\"\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n \u003csup\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn other language (unofficial port - by the community)\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/nickspring/charset-normalizer-rs\"\u003e\n \u003cimg alt=\"Static Badge\" src=\"https://img.shields.io/badge/Rust-red\"\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003e A library that helps you read text from an unknown charset encoding.\u003cbr /\u003e Motivated by `chardet`,\n\u003e I'm trying to resolve the issue by taking a new approach.\n\u003e All IANA character set names for which the Python core library provides codecs are supported.\n\u003e You can also register your own set of codecs, and yes, it would work as-is.\n\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n \u003e\u003e\u003e\u003e\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://charsetnormalizerweb.ousret.now.sh\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eπŸ‘‰ Try Me Online Now, Then Adopt Me πŸ‘ˆ \u003c/a\u003e \u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\nThis project offers you an alternative to **Universal Charset Encoding Detector**, also known as **Chardet**.\n\n| Feature | [Chardet](https://github.com/chardet/chardet) | Charset Normalizer | [cChardet](https://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet) |\n|--------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------:|\n| `Fast` | βœ… | βœ… | βœ… |\n| `Universal`[^1] | ❌ | βœ… | ❌ |\n| `Reliable` **without** distinguishable standards | βœ… | βœ… | βœ… |\n| `Reliable` **with** distinguishable standards | βœ… | βœ… | βœ… |\n| `License` | _Disputed_[^2]\u003cbr\u003e_restrictive_ | MIT | MPL-1.1\u003cbr\u003e_restrictive_ |\n| `Native Python` | βœ… | βœ… | ❌ |\n| `Detect spoken language` | βœ… | βœ… | N/A |\n| `UnicodeDecodeError Safety` | βœ… | βœ… | ❌ |\n| `Whl Size (min)` | 500 kB | 150 kB | ~200 kB |\n| `Supported Encoding` | 99 | [99](https://charset-normalizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/support.html#supported-encodings) | 40 |\n| `Can register custom encoding` | ❌ | βœ… | ❌ |\n\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://i.imgflip.com/373iay.gif\" alt=\"Reading Normalized Text\" width=\"226\"/\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://media.tenor.com/images/c0180f70732a18b4965448d33adba3d0/tenor.gif\" alt=\"Cat Reading Text\" width=\"200\"/\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n[^1]: They are clearly using specific code for a specific encoding even if covering most of used one.\n[^2]: Chardet 7.0+ was relicensed from LGPL-2.1 to MIT following an AI-assisted rewrite. This relicensing is disputed on two independent grounds: **(a)** the original author [contests](https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327) that the maintainer had the right to relicense, arguing the rewrite is a derivative work of the LGPL-licensed codebase since it was not a clean room implementation; **(b)** the copyright claim itself is [questionable](https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/334) given the code was primarily generated by an LLM, and AI-generated output may not be copyrightable under most jurisdictions. Either issue alone could undermine the MIT license. Beyond licensing, the rewrite raises questions about responsible use of AI in open source: key architectural ideas pioneered by charset-normalizer - notably decode-first validity filtering (our foundational approach since v1) and encoding pairwise similarity with the same algorithm and threshold β€” surfaced in chardet 7 without acknowledgment. The project also imported test files from charset-normalizer to train and benchmark against it, then claimed superior accuracy on those very files. Charset-normalizer has always been MIT-licensed, encoding-agnostic by design, and built on a verifiable human-authored history.\n\n## ⚑ Performance\n\nThis package offer better performances (99th, and 95th) against Chardet. Here are some numbers.\n\n| Package | Accuracy | Mean per file (ms) | File per sec (est) |\n|---------------------------------------------------|:--------:|:------------------:|:------------------:|\n| [chardet 7.1](https://github.com/chardet/chardet) | 89 % | 3 ms | 333 file/sec |\n| charset-normalizer | **97 %** | 3 ms | 333 file/sec |\n\n| Package | 99th percentile | 95th percentile | 50th percentile |\n|---------------------------------------------------|:---------------:|:---------------:|:---------------:|\n| [chardet 7.1](https://github.com/chardet/chardet) | 32 ms | 17 ms | \u003c 1 ms |\n| charset-normalizer | 16 ms | 10 ms | 1 ms |\n\n_updated as of March 2026 using CPython 3.12, Charset-Normalizer 3.4.6, and Chardet 7.1.0_\n\n~Chardet's performance on larger file (1MB+) are very poor. Expect huge difference on large payload.~ No longer the case since Chardet 7.0+\n\n\u003e Stats are generated using 400+ files using default parameters. More details on used files, see GHA workflows.\n\u003e And yes, these results might change at any time. The dataset can be updated to include more files.\n\u003e The actual delays heavily depends on your CPU capabilities. The factors should remain the same.\n\u003e Chardet claims on his documentation to have a greater accuracy than us based on the dataset they trained Chardet on(...)\n\u003e Well, it's normal, the opposite would have been worrying. Whereas charset-normalizer don't train on anything, our solution\n\u003e is based on a completely different algorithm, still heuristic through, it does not need weights across every encoding tables.\n\n## ✨ Installation\n\nUsing pip:\n\n```sh\npip install charset-normalizer -U\n```\n\n## πŸš€ Basic Usage\n\n### CLI\nThis package comes with a CLI.\n\n```\nusage: normalizer [-h] [-v] [-a] [-n] [-m] [-r] [-f] [-t THRESHOLD]\n file [file ...]\n\nThe Real First Universal Charset Detector. Discover originating encoding used\non text file. Normalize text to unicode.\n\npositional arguments:\n files File(s) to be analysed\n\noptional arguments:\n -h, --help show this help message and exit\n -v, --verbose Display complementary information about file if any.\n Stdout will contain logs about the detection process.\n -a, --with-alternative\n Output complementary possibilities if any. Top-level\n JSON WILL be a list.\n -n, --normalize Permit to normalize input file. If not set, program\n does not write anything.\n -m, --minimal Only output the charset detected to STDOUT. Disabling\n JSON output.\n -r, --replace Replace file when trying to normalize it instead of\n creating a new one.\n -f, --force Replace file without asking if you are sure, use this\n flag with caution.\n -t THRESHOLD, --threshold THRESHOLD\n Define a custom maximum amount of chaos allowed in\n decoded content. 0. \u003c= chaos \u003c= 1.\n --version Show version information and exit.\n```\n\n```bash\nnormalizer ./data/sample.1.fr.srt\n```\n\nor\n\n```bash\npython -m charset_normalizer ./data/sample.1.fr.srt\n```\n\nπŸŽ‰ Since version 1.4.0 the CLI produce easily usable stdout result in JSON format.\n\n```json\n{\n \"path\": \"/home/default/projects/charset_normalizer/data/sample.1.fr.srt\",\n \"encoding\": \"cp1252\",\n \"encoding_aliases\": [\n \"1252\",\n \"windows_1252\"\n ],\n \"alternative_encodings\": [\n \"cp1254\",\n \"cp1256\",\n \"cp1258\",\n \"iso8859_14\",\n \"iso8859_15\",\n \"iso8859_16\",\n \"iso8859_3\",\n \"iso8859_9\",\n \"latin_1\",\n \"mbcs\"\n ],\n \"language\": \"French\",\n \"alphabets\": [\n \"Basic Latin\",\n \"Latin-1 Supplement\"\n ],\n \"has_sig_or_bom\": false,\n \"chaos\": 0.149,\n \"coherence\": 97.152,\n \"unicode_path\": null,\n \"is_preferred\": true\n}\n```\n\n### Python\n*Just print out normalized text*\n```python\nfrom charset_normalizer import from_path\n\nresults = from_path('./my_subtitle.srt')\n\nprint(str(results.best()))\n```\n\n*Upgrade your code without effort*\n```python\nfrom charset_normalizer import detect\n```\n\nThe above code will behave the same as **chardet**. We ensure that we offer the best (reasonable) BC result possible.\n\nSee the docs for advanced usage : [readthedocs.io](https://charset-normalizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)\n\n## πŸ˜‡ Why\n\nWhen I started using Chardet, I noticed that it was not suited to my expectations, and I wanted to propose a\nreliable alternative using a completely different method. Also! I never back down on a good challenge!\n\nI **don't care** about the **originating charset** encoding, because **two different tables** can\nproduce **two identical rendered string.**\nWhat I want is to get readable text, the best I can.\n\nIn a way, **I'm brute forcing text decoding.** How cool is that ? 😎\n\nDon't confuse package **ftfy** with charset-normalizer or chardet. ftfy goal is to repair Unicode string whereas charset-normalizer to convert raw file in unknown encoding to unicode.\n\n## 🍰 How\n\n - Discard all charset encoding table that could not fit the binary content.\n - Measure noise, or the mess once opened (by chunks) with a corresponding charset encoding.\n - Extract matches with the lowest mess detected.\n - Additionally, we measure coherence / probe for a language.\n\n**Wait a minute**, what is noise/mess and coherence according to **YOU ?**\n\n*Noise :* I opened hundred of text files, **written by humans**, with the wrong encoding table. **I observed**, then\n**I established** some ground rules about **what is obvious** when **it seems like** a mess (aka. defining noise in rendered text).\n I know that my interpretation of what is noise is probably incomplete, feel free to contribute in order to\n improve or rewrite it.\n\n*Coherence :* For each language there is on earth, we have computed ranked letter appearance occurrences (the best we can). So I thought\nthat intel is worth something here. So I use those records against decoded text to check if I can detect intelligent design.\n\n## ⚑ Known limitations\n\n - Language detection is unreliable when text contains two or more languages sharing identical letters. (eg. HTML (english tags) + Turkish content (Sharing Latin characters))\n - Every charset detector heavily depends on sufficient content. In common cases, do not bother run detection on very tiny content.\n\n## ⚠️ About Python EOLs\n\n**If you are running:**\n\n- Python \u003e=2.7,\u003c3.5: Unsupported\n- Python 3.5: charset-normalizer \u003c 2.1\n- Python 3.6: charset-normalizer \u003c 3.1\n\nUpgrade your Python interpreter as soon as possible.\n\n## πŸ‘€ Contributing\n\nContributions, issues and feature requests are very much welcome.\u003cbr /\u003e\nFeel free to check [issues page](https://github.com/ousret/charset_normalizer/issues) if you want to contribute.\n\n## πŸ“ License\n\nCopyright Β© [Ahmed TAHRI @Ousret](https://github.com/Ousret).\u003cbr /\u003e\nThis project is [MIT](https://github.com/Ousret/charset_normalizer/blob/master/LICENSE) licensed.\n\nCharacters frequencies used in this project Β© 2012 [Denny VrandečiΔ‡](http://simia.net/letters/)\n\n## πŸ’Ό For Enterprise\n\nProfessional support for charset-normalizer is available as part of the [Tidelift\nSubscription][1]. 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