Character encoding detecting library for Python using ICU and libmagic.
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# Charlock Holmes [](https://travis-ci.org/xtao/PyCharlockHolmes)
Character encoding detecting library for Python using [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/) and libmagic. Inspired by [Charlock Holmes](https://raw.github.com/brianmario/charlock_holmes)
## Dependency 1. icu 2. file(libmagic)
- ### Gentoo
emerge -av dev-libs/icu emerge -av sys-apps/file
- ### Ubuntu
apt-get install libicu-dev apt-get install libmagic-dev
- ### Brew
brew install icu4c brew install libmagic export ICUI18N=”/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/xx” # Replace “xx” as the version of your icu export MAGIC=”/usr/local/Cellar/libmagic/xx” # Replace “xx” as the version of your libmagic
## Install
python setup build python setup install
## Usage
from charlockholmes import detect file = open(‘test.txt’) content = file.read() print detect(content)
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