chardet VS uniout

Compare chardet vs uniout and see what are their differences.

chardet

Python character encoding detector (by chardet)

uniout

Never see escaped bytes in output. (by moskytw)
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chardet uniout
8 0
2,058 157
1.0% -
2.9 1.8
5 months ago almost 2 years ago
Python Python
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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chardet

Posts with mentions or reviews of chardet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-05.
  • After almost a year, Ben Eater is back
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2022
  • In MySQL, never use “utf8”. Use “utf8mb4”
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2022
    The craziest issue I had was I couldn't predict what char encoding the text in my database was in. Most users entered Windows-1252, some text blobs were UTF-16, others were European character sets, and some were UTF-8. Some were Japanese SHIFT_JIS. Don't ask me how any of this happened. I retrospect, I should have dumped all the tables from MySQL and used the excellent PyPy Chardet [1] library to see what I was dealing with, do the conversions and then re-import the data. But then someone could copy UTF-16 from a Windows document and paste it in, so you have to convert going in to the database.

    You have set Apache to UTF-8, PHP to UTF-8, MySQL to UTF-8, and the MySQL driver you are using to UTF-8. It's not clear how these setting interact. Are there silent conversions happening or do you always have to detect the encoding on data coming from the server? HTML pages have a character encoding specifier, but the BOM at the start of the file takes precedence (I think.) I got it to work by always detecting encoding for any text coming from the database and using iconv, but this turned out to be really slow and unreliable. It was truly the biggest mess by an order of magnitude than any other programming problem I faced in my career.

    Would not attempt again.

    [1] https://github.com/chardet/chardet

  • Encoding detection
    5 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 24 Nov 2021
    I found there is a https://github.com/chardet/chardet python library, which can be ported to Common Lisp.
  • Everything to know about Requests v2.26.0
    5 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2021
    The library that Requests uses for content encoding detection has for the past 10 years been chardet which is licensed LGPL-2.1.
  • PyWhat: Identify Anything
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2021

uniout

Posts with mentions or reviews of uniout. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chardet and uniout you can also consider the following projects:

Charset Normalizer - Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python

fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching in Python

ftfy - Fixes mojibake and other glitches in Unicode text, after the fact.

Levenshtein - The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity

pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python

shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.

xpinyin - Translate Chinese hanzi to pinyin (拼音) by Python, 汉字转拼音

pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing in Python