ftfy
Fixes mojibake and other glitches in Unicode text, after the fact. (by rspeer)
Charset Normalizer
Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python (by Ousret)
ftfy | Charset Normalizer | |
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2 | 4 | |
3,715 | 524 | |
0.7% | - | |
5.5 | 8.5 | |
21 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2024-04-29.
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You can't just assume UTF-8
If you’re actually in a position where you need to guess the encoding, something like “ftfy” <https://github.com/rspeer/python-ftfy> (webapp: <https://ftfy.vercel.app/>) is a perfectly reasonable choice.
But, you should always do your absolute utmost not to be put in a situation where guessing is your only choice.
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7 Useful Python Libraries You Should Use in Your Next Project
ftfy
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.
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Everything to know about Requests v2.26.0
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.
- ✏️ Charset-Normalizer v2 - Charset Detection - x2 faster than Chardet - x3 more encoding supported! - And BC with Chardet
- Charset-Normalizer 2.0, x2 faster than Chardet, x3 more encodings supported
- Python Chardet alternative, Charset-Normalizer version 1.4 available
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ftfy and Charset Normalizer you can also consider the following projects:
fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching in Python
chardet - Python character encoding detector
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
pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python
pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing in Python
ijson
shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.