{
    "name": "chardetect(1)",
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "chardetect",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "/phpMan.php/man/chardetect/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-05-27T16:08:54Z",
    "synopsis": "chardet [file ...]",
    "sections": [
        {
            "name": "NAME",
            "level": 1,
            "content": "chardet - universal character encoding detector\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        {
            "name": "SYNOPSIS",
            "level": 1,
            "content": "chardet [file ...]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        {
            "name": "DESCRIPTION",
            "level": 1,
            "content": "Report heuristically-detected character encoding for each file.\n\nFor  every  specified  file (defaulting to stdin if no files are specified), reads and deter‐\nmines the character encoding of the file content. Reports the name and confidence  level  for\neach file's detected character encoding.\n",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "SEE ALSO",
                    "level": 2,
                    "content": "/usr/share/doc/python-chardet-doc/index.html\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "AUTHOR",
            "level": 1,
            "content": "chardet module was written by Mark Pilgrim <mark@diveintomark.org>\n\nThis  manual  page  was written by Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>, for the Debian project\n(but may be used by others).\n\n\n\nchardet 2.2.1                               December 2013                                 CHARDET(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    ]
}