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Chardet is a character encoding detection module that uses occurrence analysis to identify the most probable encoding of text data. It is suitable for applications that need to handle various character encodings, especially when processing files or buffers. This module is lightweight and works across different environments, making it versatile for both Node.
- lurq health score
- 72/100
- Confidence
- proven
- Weekly downloads
- 61,457,510
- Latest version
- 2.2.0
- Last release
- Jun 20, 2026
- License
- MIT
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