chardet Universal encoding detector Universal character encoding detector ------------------------------------- Detects - ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants) - Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese) - EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese) - EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean) - KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic) - ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian) - ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian) - windows-1252 (English) - ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek) - ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew) - TIS-620 (Thai) Requires Python 2.1 or later http://chardet.feedparser.org/download/ Mark Pilgrim 37f8c75c0f1ac5bbef8aa363f9601df05b16b7be 1.0