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+# uchardet
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+[uchardet](https://github.com/BYVoid/uchardet) is a C language binding of the original C++ implementation of the universal charset detection library by Mozilla.
+
+uchardet is an encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.
+
+The original code of universalchardet is available at http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/universalchardet/
+
+Techniques used by universalchardet are described at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/UniversalCharsetDetection.html
+
+## Supported Encodings
+
+  * Unicode
+    * UTF-8
+    * UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE
+    * UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121 / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431
+  * Chinese
+    * ISO-2022-CN
+    * BIG5
+    * EUC-TW
+    * GB18030
+    * HZ-GB-23121
+  * Japanese
+    * ISO-2022-JP
+    * SHIFT_JIS
+    * EUC-JP
+  * Korean
+    * ISO-2022-KR
+    * EUC-KR
+  * Cyrillic
+    * ISO-8859-5
+    * KOI8-R
+    * WINDOWS-1251
+    * MACCYRILLIC
+    * IBM866
+    * IBM855
+  * Greek
+    * ISO-8859-7
+    * WINDOWS-1253
+  * Hebrew
+    * ISO-8859-8
+    * WINDOWS-1255
+  * Others
+    * WINDOWS-1252
+
+## Installation
+
+### Ubuntu/Debian
+
+    apt-get install uchardet libuchardet-dev
+
+### Mac
+
+    brew install uchardet
+
+### Build from source
+
+    cmake .
+    make
+    make install
+
+## Usage
+
+### Command Line
+
+```
+uchardet Command Line Tool
+Version 0.0.1
+
+Author: BYVoid
+Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/uchardet/issues/entry
+
+Usage:
+ uchardet [Options] [File]
+
+Options:
+ -v, --version         Print version and build information.
+ -h, --help            Print this help.
+ ```
+### Library
+
+See [uchardet.h](https://github.com/BYVoid/uchardet/blob/master/src/uchardet.h)
+
+## Related Projects
+
+  * [python-chardet](http://chardet.feedparser.org/) Python port
+  * [ruby-rchardet](http://rubyforge.org/projects/chardet/) Ruby port
+  * [juniversalchardet](http://code.google.com/p/juniversalchardet/) Java port of universalchardet
+  * [jchardet](http://jchardet.sourceforge.net/) Java port of chardet
+  * [nuniversalchardet](http://code.google.com/p/nuniversalchardet/) C# port of universalchardet
+  * [nchardet](http://www.conceptdevelopment.net/Localization/NCharDet/) C# port of chardet
+  * [uchardet-enhanced](https://bitbucket.org/medoc/uchardet-enhanced) A fork of mozilla universalchardet
+
+## License
+
+[Mozilla Public License Version 1.1](http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/1.1/)