| Port variant | v13 |
| Summary | Charset Detection, for Everyone (3.13) |
| Package version | 3.5.1 |
| Homepage | https://pypi.org/project/charset-normalizer/ |
| Keywords | python |
| Maintainer | Python Automaton |
| License | Not yet specified |
| Other variants | v14 |
| Ravenports | Buildsheet | History |
| Ravensource | Port Directory | History |
| Last modified | 19 AUG 2026, 18:47:48 UTC |
| Port created | 15 JUL 2021, 22:32:01 UTC |
| single | Charset Detection, for Everyone 👋
The Real First Universal Charset Detector
Featured Packages
In other language (unofficial port - by the
community) Motivated by `chardet`, > I'm trying to resolve the issue by taking a new approach. > All IANA character set names for which the Python core library provides codecs are supported. > You can also register your own set of codecs, and yes, it would work as-is. This project offers you an alternative to **Universal Charset Encoding Detector**, also known as **Chardet**. | Feature | [Chardet] | Charset Normalizer | [cChardet] | |--------------------------------------------------|:---------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------:| | `Fast` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | `Fast on large content (uncapped)` | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | | `Universal`[^1] | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | | `Reliable` **without** distinguishable standards | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | `Reliable` **with** distinguishable standards | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | `License` | _0BSD_[^2] _disputed_ | MIT | MPL-1.1 _restrictive_ | | `Native Python` | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | `Detect spoken language` | ✅ | ✅ | N/A | | `UnicodeDecodeError Safety` | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | | `Whl Size` | ~1200 kB | ~250 kB | ~200 kB | | `Supported Encoding` | 99 | [99] | 40 | | `Can register custom encoding` | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | [image][image] [^1]: They are clearly using specific code for a specific encoding even if covering most of them. |
| Build (only) |
python313:dev:std python-pip:single:v13 autoselect-python:single:std |
| Build and Runtime | python313:primary:std |
| main | mirror://PYPIWHL/cc/61/d01fc49b8dea277640b55a9e15960dbca9fdc8c9fde18e572d39c59f4019 |
| python-reportlab:v13 | Library for generating PDFs and graphics (3.13) |
| python-requests:v13 | Python HTTP for Humans (3.13) |