charset-detector
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ICU based port of charset detection to javascript
npm install --save charset-detector
var detect = require('charset-detector');
/*
function accept node Buffer, but will work with anything that follow such rules:
allow indexing by []
has .length
each numbered property is byte 0-255
*/
var matches = detect(buffer);
Function will return array of matches sorted by most confident first.
Detectable encodings from ICU:
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ICU based port of charset detection
The npm package charset-detector receives a total of 4,041 weekly downloads. As such, charset-detector popularity was classified as popular.
We found that charset-detector demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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