Charset Normalizer VS ftfy

Compare Charset Normalizer vs ftfy and see what are their differences.

ftfy

Fixes mojibake and other glitches in Unicode text, after the fact. (by rspeer)
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Charset Normalizer ftfy
4 1
507 3,684
- 0.9%
8.6 5.7
4 days ago 13 days ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Charset Normalizer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Charset Normalizer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-13.
  • Everything to know about Requests v2.26.0
    5 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2021
    Starting in v2.26.0 for Python 3 the new default library for encoding detection will be charset_normalizer which is MIT licensed. The library itself is relatively young so a lot of work has gone into making sure users aren't broken with this change including extensive tests against real-life websites and comparing the results against chardet to ensure better performance and accuracy in every case.

ftfy

Posts with mentions or reviews of ftfy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Charset Normalizer and ftfy you can also consider the following projects:

chardet - Python character encoding detector

fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching in Python

pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python

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

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

pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing in Python

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