OUOusret·Oct 11, 2019Submission
Like Chardet. Package 1.3.1 for encoding, language detection.Charset detection
1 points · Open discussionjawah
charset_normalizer
Python2019–2019
jawah / charset_normalizer
charset_normalizer
Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python.
2Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
809GitHub stars
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Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2 | 2019-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 9 | 2019-09-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 16 | 2019-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-23 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Sep 23 | 2019-09-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Sep 30 | 2019-09-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-10-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 7 | 2019-10-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-10-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesLike Chardet. Package for encoding and language detection. Charset detection
1 points · Open discussionGuess with ease the encoding and language from any file, bytes or stream. v1.3
1 points · Open discussionPython Lib on Encoding and Language Detection. No Cpp Bindings. Like Chardet
2 points · Open discussionRelease Charset Normalizer 1.1.1 Python Chardet
1 points · Open discussionPython Die/S Every Minute You Don't Read This Article
1 points · Open discussionDetermining best fitting encoding to any text without AI in native Python
2 points · Open discussionCharset Normalizer 1.0 on GitHub, use it to replace Chardet
2 points · Open discussionPython Charset Normalizer 1.0.0
1 points · Open discussionI used brute-force to replace unreliable Python chardet
1 points · Open discussion