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📖 NAME

chardet - universal character encoding detector

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Detect encoding of one or more files	chardet file1.txt file2.txt	Reports encoding name and confidence for each file
📥 Detect encoding from stdin	cat unknown.txt | chardet	Reads from stdin if no files specified
📊 Show confidence level	chardet myfile.txt	Output includes confidence percentage (e.g., 0.99 for 99%)

📋 SYNOPSIS

chardet [file ...]

📝 DESCRIPTION

Report heuristically-detected character encoding for each file.

For every specified file (defaulting to stdin if no files are specified), reads and determines the character encoding of the file content. Reports the name and confidence level for each file's detected character encoding.

🔗 SEE ALSO

/usr/share/doc/python-chardet-doc/index.html

👤 AUTHOR

chardet module was written by Mark Pilgrim <mark AT diveintomark.org>

This manual page was written by Piotr Ożarowski <piotr AT debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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