# chardetect(1) - man - phpMan

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## NAME
       chardet - universal character encoding detector

## 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 deter‐
       mines 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@diveintomark.org>>

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



chardet 2.2.1                               December 2013                                 [CHARDET(1)]