cChardet

This library is high speed universal character encoding detector. - binding to charsetdetect.

This library is faster than chardet.

Support codecs

• Big5
• EUC-JP
• EUC-KR
• GB18030
• gb18030
• HZ-GB-2312
• IBM855
• IBM866
• ISO-2022-CN
• ISO-2022-JP
• ISO-2022-KR
• ISO-8859-2
• ISO-8859-5
• ISO-8859-7
• ISO-8859-8
• KOI8-R
• Shift_JIS
• TIS-620
• UTF-8
• UTF-16BE
• UTF-16LE
• UTF-32BE
• UTF-32LE
• WINDOWS-1250
• WINDOWS-1251
• WINDOWS-1252
• WINDOWS-1253
• WINDOWS-1255
• EUC-TW
• X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-2143
• X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-3412
• x-mac-cyrillic

Requires

• Cython: http://www.cython.org/

e.g.) Ubuntu 12.04

$sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev cython

Installation

$cd /tmp

$git clone git://github.com/PyYoshi/cChardet.git

$cd cChardet

$python setup.py build

$sudo python setup.py install

or

$sudo easy_install cchardet

Example

# coding: utf8
import cchardet
msg = file(r"test/testdata/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt").read()
result = cchardet.detect(msg)
print(result)
result2 = cchardet.detect_with_confidence(msg)
print(result2)

Test

$sudo easy_install or pip install -U chardet nose

$cd test

$nosetests --nocapture tests.py

Benchmark

code: tests.TestCchardetSpeed

sample: test/testdata/wikipediaJa_One_Thousand_and_One_Nights_SJIS.txt

Performance:

CPU: Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz

RAM: DDR3-1333 16GB

Platform: Windows 7 HP x64, Python 2.7.3 32-bit

Result:

	Request (call/s)	Result of encoding
chardet	0.25	shift_jis
cchardet	500.03	shift_jis

# License * This library files("cchardet.pyx","setup.py","tests.py") are "The MIT License".

• Other Libraries License: Please, look at the ext directory.

Thanks

• https://bitbucket.org/medoc/uchardet-enhanced/overview

• http://www.cython.org/

Contact

My blog

Sorry for my poor English :)