detect-character-encoding
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Detect character encoding using ICU.
Install using:
$ npm install detect-character-encoding
Use it like this:
const fs = require('fs');
const detectCharacterEncoding = require('detect-character-encoding');
const fileBuffer = fs.readFileSync('file.txt');
const charsetMatch = detectCharacterEncoding(fileBuffer);
console.log(charsetMatch);
// {
// encoding: 'UTF-8',
// confidence: 60
// }
detect-character-encoding should work fine on:
You may currently encounter issues on 32-bit systems and Windows.
As listed in ICU’s user guide:
config.gypi.detect-character-encoding is licensed under the BSD 2-clause license, subject to additional terms. See LICENSE for the full license text.
v0.5.0 (2017-07-23)
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Detect character encoding using ICU
The npm package detect-character-encoding receives a total of 4,169 weekly downloads. As such, detect-character-encoding popularity was classified as popular.
We found that detect-character-encoding demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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